History Characters / Popeye

Olive Oyl's longtime boyfriend and one of the strip's two original protagonists. Renamed "Ham Gravy" by mid-1920, he would remain a lead character and regular for much of the strip's first decade, vanishing permanently a year following Popeye's introduction.

* PutOnABus: As noted, he has never been seen ever since Popeye was introduced.

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Embodies this trope persistently in his earliest appearances (circa 1920 to mid-1923), in which Segar casts him as a bizarre, paradoxical comic relief sidekick to Hamgravy and Olive. The Lizzie Lucre storyline (commencing in June 1923) transitioned him into a scoundrel-type everyman prone to wild flights of fancy (rather than outright "insanity"), although a number of Sunday strips from the mid-1920s nonetheless skew Castor closer to his earlier characterization.

* PunnyName: Like his sister, his name is a play on a type of oil.

!Thimble Theater (pre-Popeye)

[[folder:Olive Oyl]]
One of the strip's two original protagonists (alongside Ham Gravy), notable as the sole 1920s regular to remain a lead character long-term following Popeye's popularization.

* {{Contortionist}}: Spends a ridiculous amount of time doing acrobatic tricks, with or without Ham Gravy.
* GirlyBruiser: Your typical 1920s feminine woman, until you piss her off.
* HairTriggerTemper: She would generally lose her cool pretty early into an argument, or from being flirted with by strangers, even taking her rage out on animals, going straight for physical retaliation.
* ThePrankster: Olive & Ham Gravy were constantly pranking & betting against each other, but Olive's pranks were usually successful while Ham's usually blew up in his face. Olive's pranks could be a bit mean-spirited & she could be a downright troll at times.
* TheTeetotaler: Unlike flappers, Olive was pro-prohibition & went out of her way to make sure Ham Gravy stayed away from hootch.

[[folder: Castor Oyl]]
Olive's brother.

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: For the first three years of his existence, he or someone else would remind you that he was one of these as a forewarning.
* NewJobAsThePlotDemands: Every time Castor encounters Ham, he has a new job.
* TinyGuyHugeGirl: Castor married a flapper named Cylinda who is twice his height.

!Fleischer/Famous Studios
[[folder:Peepeye, Pipeye, Poopeye, and Pupeye]]
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Jack Mercer
Popeye's quadruplet nephews.

* BrattyHalfPint: They're very stubborn and rather obnoxious.
* CaptainErsatz: They are an obvious attempt to emulate the likes of Happy Hooligan's nephews or WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck's nephews.
* CanonForeigner: They never appeared in the comics; their appearances are largely exclusive to a handful of the Fleischer cartoons, and several of the Creator/FamousStudios shorts and episodes of the ''All New Popeye Hour'' show, as well as a Randy Millholland ''Popeye's Cartoon Club'' [[https://www.comicskingdom.com/popeyes-cartoon-club/2020-06-07 strip]].
* ChasteToons: Outside of their first appearance, they're Popeye's nephews.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: In later appearances, only two or three of the nephews would appear, presumably due to budget cuts.
* DoesNotLikeSpam: Despite being related to Popeye, they despise spinach, even after finding out [[PowerUpFood its benefits]]. They will resort to eating it however, if their Uncle Popeye is in trouble.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In their first appearance in 1940, they were only a figment of Olive's dream, were Olive and Popeye's sons, and Poopeye was called Pepeye instead.
* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: It probably felt embarrassing for one of Popeye's nephews to live with the name "Poopeye".

[[folder:Shorty]]
A short, bespectacled navy buddy of Popeye. He appeared in three early Creator/FamousStudios Popeye shorts.[[note]]Happy Birthdaze, The Marry-Go-Round, and Moving Aweigh.[[/note]]

* CanonForeigner: Exclusively created for the Famous Studios Popeye shorts.
* TheLoad: He's an airheaded, overly earnest buffoon who is often a great burden to Popeye, basically reducing the latter to a straight man role as he puts up with all the trouble Shorty unwittingly causes for him.
* MeaningfulName: A small guy named Shorty.
* UnexplainedRecovery: At the end of his first appearance, the short "Happy Birthdaze", Popeye shoots him dead with the end text saying "The Bitter End". He appeared in two more shorts.

[[folder:Possum Pearl]]
A muscular, folk-singing hillbilly woman, living alone and obsessed with finding a man. However, she is ugly, obnoxious, and disgusting, so she only scares her lovers away.

She only appeared in one Popeye cartoon, Famous Studios' "Hill-Billing and Cooing", but it was popular enough for her to receive a [[SpinOff spin-off]] cartoon of her own in Famous' Noveltoons one-shot series, titled simply "''[[CharacterTitle Possum Pearl]]''". She made no further appearances, however; perhaps her solo short tested poorly with audiences.

* AbhorrentAdmirer: A disgusting-looking woman, who all of her love interests absolutely despise for her gruesome appearance, overbearing personality, and tendency to court them while they're already dating someone else. She's unappealing enough that Slippery Sam, the crook who was hiding from the law in her home, chose prison to avoid her.
* AdaptationalAttractiveness: For her own spin-off short, she's drawn to look younger and with visible eyelashes. She's still not exactly prettier, just less unattractive.
* AlliterativeName: '''P'''ossum '''P'''earl.
* BrawnHilda: She is very big and muscular, even more so than Popeye, Bluto, and most of the other male characters. The only way Olive was even able to fight her was to eat Popeye's spinach.
* CanonForeigner: Created exclusively for the Famous Studios series.
* CharacterCatchphrase: "A MAN!!!", a catchphrase that's more often than not, preceded by a "Yahoo!" or "Wahoo!"
* SpinOff: Despite appearing in only [[BackdoorPilot one episode]] of the original series, "Hill-Billing and Cooing", she later got her own eponymous spin-off cartoon.
* VocalDissonance: Despite being a hefty, brawny woman, Possum Pearl has a lovely voice, which she uses for her singing.
[[/folder]]

!Popeye and Son
[[folder:Popeye Junior]]
Popeye and Olive Oyl's son in ''Popeye and Son''.
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* DoesNotLikeSpam: Junior hates the taste of canned spinach, but when push comes to shove, he will eat it as PowerupFood if need be.
* {{Hunk}}: Being a young teen with a full head of hair and Popeye's physique, he does have a few female admirers.
* NiceGuy: Generally, he's gentle and kind, but he does have a bit of a temper where bullies or injustice are concerned.
* WouldHitAGirl: He's not quite as chivalrous as his father. When he threw the mermaid statue at The Sea Hag, he didn't gently toss it her way, throw it in her general direction so she'd chase after it, or anything of the sort. He squeezed open and ate a can of spinach and then hurled the statue at her face, hitting her with enough force to send her flying back through her own portal.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Tank, AKA Bluto Junior]]
Bluto's son from ''Popeye and Son''. Like his father, a bullying figure and rival to Popeye Jr..
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* TheBully: He loves to throw his weight around, or if that's not enough, his parents'. He never goes too far because that would threaten his athletic scholarship. What he hates most about Popeye Junior is that Junior will never bend the knee to him.
* JerkJock: He's the number one athlete in school with Popeye Junior a very close second, and he's every bit as unpleasant as Bluto, his father.
* NeverMyFault: Not only do his parents bail him out when he gets in trouble, they go out of their way to try and find some way they can blame Junior for it, while ignoring his own behavior. That being said, there ''have'' been times when they've punished him - e.g. in "Junior Gets a Job", after finding out that Tank tried to sabotage Junior while the latter was washing cars for Bluto (so Junior could earn the money for a Mother's Day present for Olive), Bluto punishes his son by making him wash cars for a very long time.
* SpoiledBrat: Not only do his parents pretty much give him whatever he wants, whenever he wants, they openly enable, support, and actively encourage his nastier traits.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Lizzie Bluto]]
Bluto's wife and Tank's mother in ''Popeye and Son''.
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!Fleischer/Famous Studios

[[folder:Peepeye, Pipeye, Poopeye, and Pupeye]]
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Jack Mercer
Popeye's quadruplet nephews.

* BrattyHalfPint: They're very stubborn and rather obnoxious.
* CaptainErsatz: They are an obvious attempt to emulate the likes of Happy Hooligan's nephews or WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck's nephews.
* CanonForeigner: They never appeared in the comics; their appearances are largely exclusive to a handful of the Fleischer cartoons, and several of the Creator/FamousStudios shorts and episodes of the ''All New Popeye Hour'' show, as well as a Randy Millholland ''Popeye's Cartoon Club'' [[https://www.comicskingdom.com/popeyes-cartoon-club/2020-06-07 strip]].
* ChasteToons: Outside of their first appearance, they're Popeye's nephews.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: In later appearances, only two or three of the nephews would appear, presumably due to budget cuts.
* DoesNotLikeSpam: Despite being related to Popeye, they despise spinach, even after finding out [[PowerUpFood its benefits]]. They will resort to eating it however, if their Uncle Popeye is in trouble.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In their first appearance in 1940, they were only a figment of Olive's dream, were Olive and Popeye's sons, and Poopeye was called Pepeye instead.
* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: It probably felt embarrassing for one of Popeye's nephews to live with the name "Poopeye".

[[folder:Shorty]]
A short, bespectacled navy buddy of Popeye. He appeared in three early Creator/FamousStudios Popeye shorts.[[note]]Happy Birthdaze, The Marry-Go-Round, and Moving Aweigh.[[/note]]

* CanonForeigner: Exclusively created for the Famous Studios Popeye shorts.
* TheLoad: He's an airheaded, overly earnest buffoon who is often a great burden to Popeye, basically reducing the latter to a straight man role as he puts up with all the trouble Shorty unwittingly causes for him.
* MeaningfulName: A small guy named Shorty.

[[folder:Possum Pearl]]
A muscular, folk-singing hillbilly woman, living alone and obsessed with finding a man. However, she is ugly, obnoxious, and disgusting, so she only scares her lovers away.

She only appeared in one Popeye cartoon, Famous Studios' "Hill-Billing and Cooing", but it was popular enough for her to receive a [[SpinOff spin-off]] cartoon of her own in Famous' Noveltoons one-shot series, titled simply "''[[CharacterTitle Possum Pearl]]''". She made no further appearances, however; perhaps her solo short tested poorly with audiences.

* AbhorrentAdmirer: A disgusting-looking woman, who all of her love interests absolutely despise for her gruesome appearance, overbearing personality, and tendency to court them while they're already dating someone else. She's unappealing enough that Slippery Sam, the crook who was hiding from the law in her home, chose prison to avoid her.
* AdaptationalAttractiveness: For her own spin-off short, she's drawn to look younger and with visible eyelashes. She's still not exactly prettier, just less unattractive.
* AlliterativeName: '''P'''ossum '''P'''earl.
* BrawnHilda: She is very big and muscular, even more so than Popeye, Bluto, and most of the other male characters. The only way Olive was even able to fight her was to eat Popeye's spinach.
* CanonForeigner: Created exclusively for the Famous Studios series.
* CharacterCatchphrase: "A MAN!!!", a catchphrase that's more often than not, preceded by a "Yahoo!" or "Wahoo!"
* SpinOff: Despite appearing in only [[BackdoorPilot one episode]] of the original series, "Hill-Billing and Cooing", she later got her own eponymous spin-off cartoon.
* VocalDissonance: Despite being a hefty, brawny woman, Possum Pearl has a lovely voice, which she uses for her singing.

!Popeye and Son
[[folder:Popeye Junior]]
Popeye and Olive Oyl's son in ''Popeye and Son''.

* DoesNotLikeSpam: Junior hates the taste of canned spinach, but when push comes to shove, he will eat it as PowerupFood if need be.
* {{Hunk}}: Being a young teen with a full head of hair and Popeye's physique, he does have a few female admirers.
* NiceGuy: Generally, he's gentle and kind, but he does have a bit of a temper where bullies or injustice are concerned.
* WouldHitAGirl: He's not quite as chivalrous as his father. When he threw the mermaid statue at The Sea Hag, he didn't gently toss it her way, throw it in her general direction so she'd chase after it, or anything of the sort. He squeezed open and ate a can of spinach and then hurled the statue at her face, hitting her with enough force to send her flying back through her own portal.

[[folder:Tank, AKA Bluto Junior]]
Bluto's son from ''Popeye and Son''. Like his father, a bullying figure and rival to Popeye Jr..
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* TheBully: He loves to throw his weight around, or if that's not enough, his parents'. He never goes too far because that would threaten his athletic scholarship. What he hates most about Popeye Junior is that Junior will never bend the knee to him.
* JerkJock: He's the number one athlete in school with Popeye Junior a very close second, and he's every bit as unpleasant as Bluto, his father.
* NeverMyFault: Not only do his parents bail him out when he gets in trouble, they go out of their way to try and find some way they can blame Junior for it, while ignoring his own behavior. That being said, there ''have'' been times when they've punished him - e.g. in "Junior Gets a Job", after finding out that Tank tried to sabotage Junior while the latter was washing cars for Bluto (so Junior could earn the money for a Mother's Day present for Olive), Bluto punishes his son by making him wash cars for a very long time.
* SpoiledBrat: Not only do his parents pretty much give him whatever he wants, whenever he wants, they openly enable, support, and actively encourage his nastier traits.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Lizzie Bluto]]
Bluto's wife and Tank's mother in ''Popeye and Son''.

* CorruptPolitician: She twisted inheritance law, eminent domain, and the Child Welfare Act into pretzels to try and seize the Oyl estate for herself, and her interests, and to strip Popeye of custody over Swee'pea respectively. While the way she did it was entirely legal (at least in-universe), the morality behind it is dubious, at best.
* EntertaininglyWrong: When it came to Bluto's "proposal", she took 2+2 and got 22. She figured that he had her blockade all the places where one could get married, and under his name, because he wanted her to marry him, and the moment he crashed into her estate, totaling his car in the process, Popeye's stolen wedding ring in hand, and landed before her in the classic pose (or something very close to it), she immediately agreed to marry him, aloud, before he could say anything. [[PragmaticVillainy He never bothered to correct her.]]
* FourEyesZeroSoul: She wears glasses and has little in the way of scruples.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Her machinations to seize the Oyl estate and strip custody of Swee'pea from Popeye get Olive and Popeye married to each other, giving Swee'pea, aka Popeye Junior, a stable, loving, two-parent family where he grows up to be a happy, well adjusted teen-age boy that is also a moral pillar for the community.
* VillainHasAPoint: [[TruthInTelevision Child Protective Services should have been very, very interested in Popeye.]] A bachelor with a shady past, prone to get into fights, and no stable source of income is clearly ''not'' a good place to raise a child.

!Thimble Theater
[[folder:Harold "Ham" Gravy]]
Olive Oyl's longtime boyfriend and one of the strip's two original protagonists. Renamed "Ham Gravy" by mid-1920, he would remain a lead character and regular for much of the strip's first decade, vanishing permanently a year following Popeye's introduction.

* BlackComedyAnimalCruelty: Opposite of a friend to all animals, Ham seems to kill just about every critter he came in contact with (including several of Olive's pets), almost entirely in service of a given gag's punchline. This is in stark contrast to Popeye, who usually only attacks animals in self defense.
* GagNose: The strip's first decade is copiously littered with gags mocking Ham's abnormally-large nose, with even his longtime girlfriend Olive frequently deriding him as a "long-nosed sap".
* LovableCoward: He wants so badly to be brave & manly, 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. Again, by comparison, Popeye is more than willing to do these things.
* PutOnABus: As noted, he has never been seen ever since Popeye was introduced.
* SmokingIsNotCool: Especially opposed to women smoking.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Castor, particularly during the buddy-comedy-reminiscent Sunday storyline "The Great American Desert Saga".

[[folder:Olive Oyl]]
One of the strip's two original protagonists (alongside Ham Gravy), notable as the sole 1920s regular to remain a lead character long-term following Popeye's popularization.

* {{Contortionist}}: Spends a ridiculous amount of time doing acrobatic tricks, with or without Ham Gravy.
* GirlyBruiser: Your typical 1920s feminine woman, until you piss her off.
* HairTriggerTemper: She would generally lose her cool pretty early into an argument, or from being flirted with by strangers, even taking her rage out on animals, going straight for physical retaliation.
* ThePrankster: Olive & Ham Gravy were constantly pranking & betting against each other, but Olive's pranks were usually successful while Ham's usually blew up in his face. Olive's pranks could be a bit mean-spirited & she could be a downright troll at times.
* TheTeetotaler: Unlike flappers, Olive was pro-prohibition & went out of her way to make sure Ham Gravy stayed away from hootch.

[[folder: Castor Oyl]]
Olive's brother.

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: For the first three years of his existence, he or someone else would remind you that he was one of these as a forewarning.
* NewJobAsThePlotDemands: Every time Castor encounters Ham, he has a new job.
* TinyGuyHugeGirl: Castor married a flapper named Cylinda who is twice his height.

[[folder:The Sea Hag]]
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Mae Questel (1961), Marilyn Schreffler (1978), Creator/KathyBates (2004)

The Sea Hag is a [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot pirate witch]] with a ship called the ''Black Barnacle'' and a finger in every evil scheme. She fell in love at first sight with Popeye and grew vengeful when he didn't reciprocate.

* AbhorrentAdmirer: Although Popeye doesn't make a big deal out of her unattractiveness. (Nor is it that notable, in context.)
* AdaptedOut: From a lot of the adaptations, though not all. She wasn't worked into the Paramount cartoons until the early sixties and didn't appear in Robert Altman's live-action film.
* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: She had green skin in the '60s shorts.
* AntagonistInMourning: Anytime it seems that Popeye is vanquished.
* {{ArchEnemy}}: To Popeye.
* TheDreaded: Popeye is practically superhuman and is all-but-invincible when he eats his spinach, but ''even he is afraid of the Sea Hag''. Best exemplified when he persuaded his son Popeye Jr. to let Bluto and his family keep a statue he dredged up from the depths which should belong to his son by maritime salvage law - because it actually belongs to the Sea Hag, and he would rather let Bluto's family face the Sea Hag's wrath than to mess with her.
* LastOfHerKind: She's the last witch on earth.
* LeanAndMean: Sea Hag is a lanky woman who is evil.
* MageSpecies: She's stated to be the last witch on Earth, so apparently it's not something just anyone can learn.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: She's a pirate witch who practices voodoo and sometime runs criminal shell corporations.
* {{Shapeshifting}}: In the 2004 CGI movie, she has the ability to change into a young beautiful siren-voiced mermaid.
* WomanScorned: She is really NotGoodWithRejection.
* WorthyOpponent: Popeye considers her this and was relieved to find out she hadn't died when it looked like she had.

[[folder:Alice The Goon]]
Alice is a member of a race of giant humanoids called ''Goons'' and is a leader of her people on Goon Island. After being introduced as the Sea Hag's personal henchwoman, she becomes one of Popeye's friends and Swee'Pea's nanny.

* BaldHeadOfToughness: She's a woman, she is bald and she's a BadButt when fighting.
* ForcedIntoEvil: How she and her people end up serving the Sea Hag.
* DoesNotLikeSpam: She hates the taste of spinach, which caused problems when the Sea Hag forced her to eat barrels of it in order to be able to go toe-to-toe with Popeye.
* GentleGiant: She's huge but she's sweet, kind and a loving, nurturing nanny to Swee'Pea.
* {{Gonk}}: A large goofy-looking bald humanoid with a face like a proboscis monkey, hairy forelimbs, incredibly tall, flat-chested (despite being female) with freakishly broad-shoulders & chest.
* GonkyFemme: Later appearances give her a GirlinessUpgrade and put her in a [[https://i.ibb.co/58hTp6z/Annotation-2020-06-22-193516.png dress and a flowered hat]]. She can still destroy you in a fight, though.
* TheHeavy: Her job as The Sea Hag's main henchwoman.
* InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals: Alice [[https://i.ibb.co/0m3S2zr/Annotation-2020-06-23-113651.png and her race]] all look ''exactly'' alike.
* MadeASlave: By the Sea Hag in her debut.
* MamaBear: With her child, Swee'Pea or whoever.
* MonsterIsAMommy: During her debut, it is revealed that this one large bald mook isn't a giant man... but a woman... as her child cries out "Mama" during her [[https://i.ibb.co/CBhCNPT/Annotation-2020-06-23-113216.png big brawl with]] Popeye (thus flummoxing the sailor, who has a strict WouldntHitAGirl policy).
* {{Mooks}}: Was introduced as one of these.
* MookFaceTurn: She turned on the Sea Hag when she tried to get her to kidnap Swee'pea while Popeye was away, and proceeded to watch him until Popeye returned home.
* PunchClockVillain: Forced into this in her debut by the Sea Hag.
* SamusIsAGirl: Due to her [[https://i.ibb.co/YXvvRmP/Alice-Goon1.png appearance]], Popeye had no idea she was even female and was [[WouldntHitAGirl alarmed mid-fight]] when Alice's child cries, "Mama!"
* SlaveMooks: She and her people were made into this by the Sea Hag.
* TheUnintelligible: She and her people speak in weird high-pitched squeeky noises. However; Wimpy knows "Goonese" fluently and acts as her translator.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Her child after Alice is introduced.

[[folder:Rough House]]
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Jackson Beck (1961), Allan F. Nichols
A local, hard working chef and recurring character of the comics, who runs the Rough House Cafe, one of Popeye's local hangouts. Wimpy also frequents his restaurant, although Rough House has a clear dislike of him due to his methods to con free food out of him.

* AdaptedOut: Completely absent from the theatrical cartoons. He did make an appearance in one of the Al Brodax Popeye episodes, "Wimpy the Moocher".
* AdaptationalJerkass: In "Wimpy the Moocher", Rough House openly hates Wimpy, and as Popeye finds out, [[BerserkButton just mentioning his name]] is enough to set off Rough House. In the comics he more or less grudgingly tolerates him as long as he or someone else can pay for his food.
* TheBartender: Rough House is typically seen manning the counter of his restaurant.
* PetTheDog: In the Segar comics he once employed Wimpy as a human garbage can - that is, throwing all the food scraps at him while he sat hidden under the counter.

!1960 Series
[[folder:The Sea Hag]]
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Mae Questel (1961), Marilyn Schreffler (1978), Creator/KathyBates (2004)

The Sea Hag is a [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot pirate witch]] with a ship called the ''Black Barnacle'' and a finger in every evil scheme. She fell in love at first sight with Popeye and grew vengeful when he didn't reciprocate.

* AbhorrentAdmirer: Although Popeye doesn't make a big deal out of her unattractiveness. (Nor is it that notable, in context.)
* AdaptedOut: From a lot of the adaptations, though not all. She wasn't worked into the Paramount cartoons until the early sixties and didn't appear in Robert Altman's live-action film.
* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: She had green skin in the '60s shorts.
* AntagonistInMourning: Anytime it seems that Popeye is vanquished.
* {{ArchEnemy}}: To Popeye.
* TheDreaded: Popeye is practically superhuman and is all-but-invincible when he eats his spinach, but ''even he is afraid of the Sea Hag''. Best exemplified when he persuaded his son Popeye Jr. to let Bluto and his family keep a statue he dredged up from the depths which should belong to his son by maritime salvage law - because it actually belongs to the Sea Hag, and he would rather let Bluto's family face the Sea Hag's wrath than to mess with her.
* LastOfHerKind: She's the last witch on earth.
* LeanAndMean: Sea Hag is a lanky woman who is evil.
* MageSpecies: She's stated to be the last witch on Earth, so apparently it's not something just anyone can learn.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: She's a pirate witch who practices voodoo and sometime runs criminal shell corporations.
* {{Shapeshifting}}: In the 2004 CGI movie, she has the ability to change into a young beautiful siren-voiced mermaid.
* WomanScorned: She is really NotGoodWithRejection.
* WorthyOpponent: Popeye considers her this and was relieved to find out she hadn't died when it looked like she had.

[[folder:Alice The Goon]]
Alice is a member of a race of giant humanoids called ''Goons'' and is a leader of her people on Goon Island. After being introduced as the Sea Hag's personal henchwoman, she becomes one of Popeye's friends and Swee'Pea's nanny.

* BaldHeadOfToughness: She's a woman, she is bald and she's a BadButt when fighting.
* ForcedIntoEvil: How she and her people end up serving the Sea Hag.
* DoesNotLikeSpam: She hates the taste of spinach, which caused problems when the Sea Hag forced her to eat barrels of it in order to be able to go toe-to-toe with Popeye.
* GentleGiant: She's huge but she's sweet, kind and a loving, nurturing nanny to Swee'Pea.
* {{Gonk}}: A large goofy-looking bald humanoid with a face like a proboscis monkey, hairy forelimbs, incredibly tall, flat-chested (despite being female) with freakishly broad-shoulders & chest.
* GonkyFemme: Later appearances give her a GirlinessUpgrade and put her in a [[https://i.ibb.co/58hTp6z/Annotation-2020-06-22-193516.png dress and a flowered hat]]. She can still destroy you in a fight, though.
* TheHeavy: Her job as The Sea Hag's main henchwoman.
* InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals: Alice [[https://i.ibb.co/0m3S2zr/Annotation-2020-06-23-113651.png and her race]] all look ''exactly'' alike.
* MadeASlave: By the Sea Hag in her debut.
* MamaBear: With her child, Swee'Pea or whoever.
* MonsterIsAMommy: During her debut, it is revealed that this one large bald mook isn't a giant man... but a woman... as her child cries out "Mama" during her [[https://i.ibb.co/CBhCNPT/Annotation-2020-06-23-113216.png big brawl with]] Popeye (thus flummoxing the sailor, who has a strict WouldntHitAGirl policy).
* {{Mooks}}: Was introduced as one of these.
* MookFaceTurn: She turned on the Sea Hag when she tried to get her to kidnap Swee'pea while Popeye was away, and proceeded to watch him until Popeye returned home.
* PunchClockVillain: Forced into this in her debut by the Sea Hag.
* SamusIsAGirl: Due to her [[https://i.ibb.co/YXvvRmP/Alice-Goon1.png appearance]], Popeye had no idea she was even female and was [[WouldntHitAGirl alarmed mid-fight]] when Alice's child cries, "Mama!"
* SlaveMooks: She and her people were made into this by the Sea Hag.
* TheUnintelligible: She and her people speak in weird high-pitched squeeky noises. However; Wimpy knows "Goonese" fluently and acts as her translator.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Her child after Alice is introduced.

[[folder:Rough House]]
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Jackson Beck (1961), Allan F. Nichols
A local, hard working chef and recurring character of the comics, who runs the Rough House Cafe, one of Popeye's local hangouts. Wimpy also frequents his restaurant, although Rough House has a clear dislike of him due to his methods to con free food out of him.

* AdaptedOut: Completely absent from the theatrical cartoons. He did make an appearance in one of the Al Brodax Popeye episodes, "Wimpy the Moocher".
* TheBartender: Rough House is typically seen manning the counter of his restaurant.
* BerserkButton: Rough House openly hates Wimpy, and as Popeye finds out in "Wimpy the Moocher", just mentioning his name is enough to set off Rough House.

!Popeye and Son
[[folder:Popeye Junior]]
Popeye and Olive Oyl's son in ''Popeye and Son''.

* DoesNotLikeSpam: Junior hates the taste of canned spinach, but when push comes to shove, he will eat it as PowerupFood if need be.
* {{Hunk}}: Being a young teen with a full head of hair and Popeye's physique, he does have a few female admirers.
* NiceGuy: Generally, he's gentle and kind, but he does have a bit of a temper where bullies or injustice are concerned.
* WouldHitAGirl: He's not quite as chivalrous as his father. When he threw the mermaid statue at The Sea Hag, he didn't gently toss it her way, throw it in her general direction so she'd chase after it, or anything of the sort. He squeezed open and ate a can of spinach and then hurled the statue at her face, hitting her with enough force to send her flying back through her own portal.

[[folder:Tank, AKA Bluto Junior]]
Bluto's son from ''Popeye and Son''. Like his father, a bullying figure and rival to Popeye Jr..
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* TheBully: He loves to throw his weight around, or if that's not enough, his parents'. He never goes too far because that would threaten his athletic scholarship. What he hates most about Popeye Junior is that Junior will never bend the knee to him.
* JerkJock: He's the number one athlete in school with Popeye Junior a very close second, and he's every bit as unpleasant as Bluto, his father.
* NeverMyFault: Not only do his parents bail him out when he gets in trouble, they go out of their way to try and find some way they can blame Junior for it, while ignoring his own behavior. That being said, there ''have'' been times when they've punished him - e.g. in "Junior Gets a Job", after finding out that Tank tried to sabotage Junior while the latter was washing cars for Bluto (so Junior could earn the money for a Mother's Day present for Olive), Bluto punishes his son by making him wash cars for a very long time.
* SpoiledBrat: Not only do his parents pretty much give him whatever he wants, whenever he wants, they openly enable, support, and actively encourage his nastier traits.
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[[folder:Lizzie Bluto]]
Bluto's wife and Tank's mother in ''Popeye and Son''.

* CorruptPolitician: She twisted inheritance law, eminent domain, and the Child Welfare Act into pretzels to try and seize the Oyl estate for herself, and her interests, and to strip Popeye of custody over Swee'pea respectively. While the way she did it was entirely legal (at least in-universe), the morality behind it is dubious, at best.
* EntertaininglyWrong: When it came to Bluto's "proposal", she took 2+2 and got 22. She figured that he had her blockade all the places where one could get married, and under his name, because he wanted her to marry him, and the moment he crashed into her estate, totaling his car in the process, Popeye's stolen wedding ring in hand, and landed before her in the classic pose (or something very close to it), she immediately agreed to marry him, aloud, before he could say anything. [[PragmaticVillainy He never bothered to correct her.]]
* FourEyesZeroSoul: She wears glasses and has little in the way of scruples.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Her machinations to seize the Oyl estate and strip custody of Swee'pea from Popeye get Olive and Popeye married to each other, giving Swee'pea, aka Popeye Junior, a stable, loving, two-parent family where he grows up to be a happy, well adjusted teen-age boy that is also a moral pillar for the community.
* VillainHasAPoint: [[TruthInTelevision Child Protective Services should have been very, very interested in Popeye.]] A bachelor with a shady past, prone to get into fights, and no stable source of income is clearly ''not'' a good place to raise a child.

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[[folder:Harold "Ham" Gravy]]
Olive Oyl's longtime boyfriend and one of the strip's two original protagonists. Renamed "Ham Gravy" by mid-1920, he would remain a lead character and regular for much of the strip's first decade, vanishing permanently a year following Popeye's introduction.

* BlackComedyAnimalCruelty: Opposite of a friend to all animals, Ham seems to kill just about every critter he came in contact with (including several of Olive's pets), almost entirely in service of a given gag's punchline. This is in stark contrast to Popeye, who usually only attacks animals in self defense.
* GagNose: The strip's first decade is copiously littered with gags mocking Ham's abnormally-large nose, with even his longtime girlfriend Olive frequently deriding him as a "long-nosed sap".
* LovableCoward: He wants so badly to be brave & manly, 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. Again, by comparison, Popeye is more than willing to do these things.
* PutOnABus: As noted, he has never been seen ever since Popeye was introduced.
* SmokingIsNotCool: Especially opposed to women smoking.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Castor, particularly during the buddy-comedy-reminiscent Sunday storyline "The Great American Desert Saga".

[[folder:Olive Oyl]]
One of the strip's two original protagonists (alongside Ham Gravy), notable as the sole 1920s regular to remain a lead character long-term following Popeye's popularization.

* {{Contortionist}}: Spends a ridiculous amount of time doing acrobatic tricks, with or without Ham Gravy.
* GirlyBruiser: Your typical 1920s feminine woman, until you piss her off.
* HairTriggerTemper: She would generally lose her cool pretty early into an argument, or from being flirted with by strangers, even taking her rage out on animals, going straight for physical retaliation.
* ThePrankster: Olive & Ham Gravy were constantly pranking & betting against each other, but Olive's pranks were usually successful while Ham's usually blew up in his face. Olive's pranks could be a bit mean-spirited & she could be a downright troll at times.
* TheTeetotaler: Unlike flappers, Olive was pro-prohibition & went out of her way to make sure Ham Gravy stayed away from hootch.

[[folder: Castor Oyl]]
Olive's brother.

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: For the first three years of his existence, he or someone else would remind you that he was one of these as a forewarning.
* NewJobAsThePlotDemands: Every time Castor encounters Ham, he has a new job.
* TinyGuyHugeGirl: Castor married a flapper named Cylinda who is twice his height.

* ExpyCoexistence: In the current newspaper comics at least, the original Bluto now coexists with his substitutes like Brutus and Sonny Boy.

* ExpyCoexistence: In the comics, the original Bluto now coexists with his substitutes like Brutus and Sonny Boy.

* AdaptationNameChange: Renamed Brutus in the comics and the 60's shorts due to King Features being unsure of whether or not they owned the rights to the character. Before the name Brutus was introduced in the comics and cartoons, a few various figures nigh-identical to Bluto but not called that name appeared in the comics. Most notably, the Sea Hag was given a Bluto-like son called Sonny Boy, who was later equated to Brutus when the comics started using the name, but then even later Brutus's mother was introduced as a different character. On rare occasions, Brutus and Bluto [[DecompositeCharacter have been depicted as two separate characters,]] usually as brothers; but again, this is rare.

Popeye's rival, who was initially a minor villain in the original Segar comics, but was made into a prominent character in the Fleischer cartoons. He's the bully we all know or have known in life. His relationship with Popeye is shaky, but it seems more like a rivalry than anything, and the two have had their friendly moments together-and if we take one Minute Maid ad at face value, they can become downright ''affectionate'' towards each other sometimes. In some cartoons, he was known as Brutus.

* AdaptationNameChange: Named Brutus in the comics and the 60's shorts due to King Features being unsure of whether or not they owned the rights to the character. On rare occasions, Brutus and Bluto [[DecompositeCharacter have been depicted as two separate characters,]] usually as brothers; but again, this is rare.

* FatBastard: Is sometimes depicted as being more obese than muscular.

* NamedByTheAdaptation: Combined with AlliterativeName.

* TheAce: Severely downplayed. When he's his normal self, Popeye can be somewhat dopey, reckless and brash, and ends up stumbling into a lot of situations he's clearly out of his depth on, all the very opposite of this trope. But an understated part of his [[PowerupFood eating spinach]] is that he doesn't ''just'' become an EmpoweredBadassNormal, but he also tends to suddenly master any related matters to the current story. Boating and fishing, the gentleman's etiquette, cooking, you name it; if Bluto or someone else had challenged him to anything, he'll turn the tides to absurd degrees.

** One cartoon has Bluto faking severe injuries to convince Popeye to give up his spinach. Popeye was horrified by the supposed damage he had done. It's one thing to lay out troublemakers for causing trouble but going that far over it was too much for the sailor.

* FriendToAllChildren: He's pretty nice to kids in general, and whenever he needs to discipline Swee'Pea or his nephews, he even sobs and cries openly, showing how much he hates to be severe with them. As mentioned earlier, he once beat up a greedy hot dog vendor for refusing to give one to a dirt poor kid (although insulting Popeye to his face sure didn't help). He even broke the laws of time and space to help a child who bought his comics after a bully picked on him.

** In the initial search for Poopdeck Pappy story arc in the comics, insulting Poopdeck Pappy, who Popeye desperately wanted to find, will ''really'' rile up Popeye. He even tells Olive to [[BigShutUp shut it]] and even spanks her because she won't stop egging him on about Pappy's terrible behaviour.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Ghosts seem to be the only thing he's really afraid of. He once turned down a free ship after discovering it was haunted.

!!!'''Voiced by:''' William Costello (1933-1935), Floyd Buckley (1935)[[note]]The Radio voice of Popeye circa 1936, and providing Popeye's voice in one theatrical cartoon, "Be Kind to Aminals"[[/note]], Creator/JackMercer (1935-1983), Jackson Beck (1946)[[note]]voiced in "House Tricks?" and "Peep in the Deep"[[/note]] Harry Foster Welch (1945-1947)[[note]]Voiced for 7 shorts; "For Better or Nurse", "Service with a Guile", "Klondike Casanova", "Rodeo Romeo", "The Fistic Mystic", "The Island Fling" and "Abusement Park", and he partially voices Popeye near the end of "Rocket to Mars", which is otherwise Jack Mercer[[/note]], Mae Questel (1945, for "Shape Ahoy" only) Creator/MauriceLaMarche (1987), Creator/BillyWest (2004), Creator/TomKenny (2014)[[note]][[WesternAnimation/Popeye2014 cancelled movie]][[/note]]

!!!'''Voiced By:''' Mae Questel (1933-1938, 1944-1960's), Margie Hines (1938-1943), Bonnie Poe (1933-1934), Marilyn Schreffler (1978, ''WesternAnimation/PopeyeAndSon''), Creator/TaraStrong (''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken''), Tabitha St. Germain (2004, ''The Quest for Pappy''), Amy Adams (animated film), Creator/SandyFox (''Ride/PopeyeAndBlutosBilgeRatBarges'' at [[Ride/UniversalStudios Universal's Island of Adventure]]) Naoko Watanabe (Japanese dub), Creator/GreyDeLisle (2014)[[note]][[WesternAnimation/Popeye2014 cancelled movie]][[/note]]

* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: To Castor; most apparent early in the comic. They spend an awful lot of time arguing and insulting one another, with Olive usually getting in the most digs. In the live-action movie their relationship is pretty much the same, except now Olive is older and ''Castor'' is the one seen as the AnnoyingYoungerSibling.

!!!'''Voiced By:''' William Pennell (1933-1935,1942,1943), Gus Wickie (1935-1938), Pinto Colvig (1939-1940), Dave Barry (1942-1944), Tedd Pierce (1942), Jackson Beck (1944-1960s), Garry Chalk (2004)

!!!'''Voiced By:''' Charles Lawrence, Lou Fleischer, Jack Mercer (1960-1961), Allan Melvin, Daws Butler, Maurice [=LaMarche=], William Baldwin (animated film), Sanders Whiting (2004)

!!!'''Voiced By:''' Mae Questel(1936-1938),(1940s- 1960s), Margie Hines (1938-1943), Marilyn Schreffler(1970s-1980s), Corinne Orr (1972), Tabitha St. Germain (2004)

[[folder:Popeye The Sailor]]

!!!'''Voiced By:''' Mae Questel (1933-1938, 1944-1960's), Margie Hines (1938-1943), Bonnie Poe (1933-1934), Marilyn Schreffler (1978, ''WesternAnimation/PopeyeAndSon''), Creator/TaraStrong (WesternAnimation/RobotChicken), Tabitha St. Germain (2004, The Quest for Pappy), Amy Adams (animated film), Creator/SandyFox (''Ride/PopeyeAndBlutosBilgeRatBarges'' at [[Ride/UniversalStudios Universal's Island of Adventure]]) Naoko Watanabe (Japanese dub), Creator/GreyDeLisle (2014)[[note]][[WesternAnimation/Popeye2014 cancelled movie]][[/note]]

* CharacterCatchphrase: When voiced by Gus Wickie, a furious ''"WHY, I..."'' whenever someone fought back against him. Sometimes followed by an equally furious ''"I'LL FIX HIM!"'' Both are best heard in WesternAnimation/PopeyeTheSailorMeetsSindbadTheSailor.

* {{Leitmotif}}: The Fleischer Studios cartoons used the sea shanty "Blow The Man Down" as a motif for him, always played with tubas, basses and other low toned instruments.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Brutus, during the 1960-1962 King Features TV cartoons

* GutturalGrowler: Has a low, gruff voice.

* BlackComedyAnimalCruelty: Opposite of a friend to all animals, Ham seems to kill just about every critter he came in contact with (including several of Olive's pets), almost entirely in service of a given gag's punchline. This is in stark contrast to Popeye, who only attacked animals in self defense.

* LovableCoward: 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.

* BlackComedyAnimalCruelty: Opposite of a friend to all animals, Ham seems to kill just about every critter he came in contact with (including several of Olive's pets), almost entirely in service of a given gag's punchline. This is in stark contrast to Popeye, who only attacked animals in self defence.

* BlackComedyAnimalCruelty: Opposite of a friend to all animals, Ham seems to kill just about every critter he came in contact with (including several of Olive's pets), almost entirely in service of a given gag's punchline.

* VitriolicBestBuds: With Castor, particularly during the buddy-comedy-reminiscent Sunday storyline "The Great American Desert Saga",

[[folder:Harold Hamgravy]]
Olive Oyl's old boyfriend. He was quickly dropped when Popeye entered the picture.

* 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.

The original main character.

* {{Contortionist}}: Spends a rediculous amount of time doing acrobatic tricks, with or without Hamgravy.

* HairTriggerTemper: She would generally loose her cool pretty early into an argument, or from being flirted with by straners, even taking her rage out on animals, going straight for physical retaliation.
* ThePrankster: Olive & Hamgravy were constantly pranking & betting against each other, but Olive's pranks were usually successful while Hamgravy's usually blew up in his face. Olive's pranks could be a bit mean-spirited & she could be a downright troll at times.
* TheTeetotaler: Unlike flappers, Olive was pro-prohibition & went out of her way to make sure Hamgravy stayed away from hootch.

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

* CatchPhrase: When voiced by Gus Wickie, a furious ''"WHY, I..."'' whenever someone fought back against him. Sometimes followed by an equally furious ''"I'LL FIX HIM!"'' Both are best heard in WesternAnimation/PopeyeTheSailorMeetsSindbadTheSailor.

-->--Wimpy's CatchPhrase

* KarmicButtMonkey: If it isn't Popeye or Olive getting the short end of the schtick, there's a 90% chance that it's going to be Bluto, who very much does have it coming.

* ButtMonkey: She's usually [[TheChewToy brought into various slapstick]] from most of Popeye's shenanigans, or when she's being the [[DamselInDistress destressed damsel]] when Bluto's around, or when confrontation comes between Popeye and Bluto. Can't this woman just catch a break?

* ButtMonkey: If it isn't Popeye or Olive getting this sort of treatment, there's a 90% chance that it's going to be Bluto, who very much does have it coming.

Olive Oyl's old boyfriend.

* 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 knockout blow. 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.

* {{Leitmotif}}: Two. "Popeye the Sailor Man" is the main one, but he's also associated with "The Sailor's Hornpipe".

* TheStoic: Generally more emotionally reserved than the other characters, Wimpy usually keeps a cool head unless something genuinely saddens, frightens or angers him. He rarely even laughs.

While he was a very significant character in the comics, in Segar's days even coming close to eclipse Popeye himself in importance, the Fleischers merely made him an incidental character in the cartoons, who was always [[RuleOfFunny just there for the mere sake of comic relief]] -- mostly because Dave Fleischer considered the character, such as he was in the comic, "too intellectual" to work in the film cartoons. In fact, he was so minor in the cartoons that he was abandoned by the Fleischers after "Onion Pacific", and it wasn't until a full decade later that he would appear again, in the short "Popeye Makes A Movie." (and even then, that appearance is through StockFootage of 1937's ''WesternAnimation/PopeyeTheSailorMeetsAliBabasFortyThieves'')

However, he has become a fan favorite, and even has a brand of burger joints in Europe named after him called "Wimpy's".

* AdaptationNameChange: Named Brutus in the comics and the 60's shorts due to King Features being unsure of whether or not they owned the rights to the character.