History ComicStrip / Popeye

* Fadewell, the primary antagonist of the Dice Island storyline (Popeye's introductory arc in the comics), is evidently this towards the title character of ''Film/DrMabuseTheGambler'', while his henchwoman, the "Black Ghost", appears to be a surrealistically enigmatic FemmeFatale in the mould of [[Film/LesVampires Irma Vep]].

** "Females is Fickle" -- Olive's pet goldfish jumps in the sea, and she makes Popeye go in after him. After he goes through a lot of trouble to get him back, Olive decides the fish would be happier freed and tosses him back in the sea. Enraged, Popeye then gives Olive her comeuppance by wrapping her in ropes and tossing her over the side of the ship (but with a lifesaver on) while returning to do his chores and sing happily, and completely ignoring Olive's pleas to rescue her from drowning.

* WesternAnimation/PopeyeTheSailor
* WesternAnimation/PopeyeTheSailorMeetsSindbadTheSailor
* WesternAnimation/PopeyeTheSailorMeetsAliBabasFortyThieves
* WesternAnimation/AladdinAndHisWonderfulLamp
* WesternAnimation/OutToPunch

** Don't forget ThoseWackyNazis.

* WorldsStrongestMan: Popeye

[[caption-width-right:309: "[[CatchPhrase I yam wot I yam and that's all wot I yam.]]"]]

* CatchPhrase

* CerealInducedSuperpowers: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfMLRuamQeY&feature=related In this]] infamous Quaker Oats commercial, Popeye chose oatmeal over spinach for super strength. The ad was quickly pulled when people (especially the nonviolent Quakers) complained.
** In the mid-1930s radio series, it was Wheatena.
** In one of the early strips, he has a temporary dearth of spinach so he temporarily partially replaces his strength boost with milk.
** On the other hand, Popeye has been credited for saving the spinach industry in the 1930's by convincing more kids to eat it, invoking this trope without it being an official advertisement.
*** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_City,_Texas Crystal City, Texas,]] an agricultural town that was based around spinach growing, actually erected a statue of Popeye in the town square.
* CerebusSyndrome: In what is sure to surprise many people, ''Thimble Theater'' went from gag strip [[http://www.ncs-glc.com/GLC/ed_black/segar/segar2.html parodying vaudeville and overwrought film serials,]] to an adventure/comedy strip in the tradition of Roy Crane's ''Wash Tubbs'', and was quite popular. Created in 1919, it had been running (mostly in Hearst papers) for ''ten years'' when Popeye showed up. His appearance only served to make it more successful.

** Some of the Popeye shorts didn't really have a lot of dialogue. In his debut short, Popeye only sang his theme song and said his CatchPhrase, "Well, blow me down!". It wasn't until "Blow Me Down!" that we got the trademark ad-libbed mumblings from the characters.

* SmokingIsCool: Anyone who has seen one of the cartoons know how he incorporates the toots of his pipe into his {{catchphrase}} and the opening music. After ''decades'' that [[IfItWasFunnyTheFirstTime still hasn't gone stale.]] He has also been known to use his pipe like a blowtorch and a periscope.

** "Females is Fickle" -- Olive's pet goldfish jumps in the sea, and she makes Popeye go in after him. After he goes through a lot of trouble to get him back, Olive decides the fish would be happier freed and tosses him back in the sea. Enraged, Popeye throws her into the sea as well.

* PutOnABus: Characters from the Fleischer era such as Wimpy, Swee'Pea and Poopdeck Pappy were largely absent in the Famous era to focus more on the love triangle between Popeye, Olive and Bluto. Eugene the Jeep didn't even appear in the Famous era shorts and wouldn't return until the KFS TV shorts, which was ''20 years'' since his last appearance.

** Unfortunately (for Clark Kent) some weird natural disasters kept attacking their boat and Captain Strong (truly believing he had a new cache of "Alien Seaweed") insisted on dealing with them all by himself in a completely over the top fashion (like for example, rowing a boat through the air) much like in Popeye's classic shorts. Of course, Clark Kent was secretly behind all of Strong's awesome feats but let the captain be the hero, thus keeping the seaweed charade intact. The story is way, way better (and funnier) than how it sounds. Captain Strong would later rppear in the pages of ''Comicbook/HarleyQuinn''.

* SlapSlapKiss: Believe it or not, that's how Popeye and Olive started out. This was no LoveAtFirstSight; they fought for weeks (Olive's first words to Popeye were "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive_Oyl Aww, shut up, you big bilge rat!]]") despite ultimately commencing a romantic relationship only a year later.
* Prior to Popeye's introduction into ''Thimble Theatre'', one of its primary running gags centered on the turbulence of the romance between Olive and her longtime (since the implied age of twelve or under) boyfriend Ham Gravy; while both characters are disparaging of the other's qualities (Olive is disdainful of Ham's "cheapness", lethargy and [[GagNose large nose]] and Ham of Olive's large feet and abysmal baking and singing abilities) and thus frequently break up to pursue wealthier or more attractive partners, they nonetheless almost invariably reunite afterwards, hence their relationship's baffling longevity.

* AdaptationDistillation: The Fleischer Popeye's played up Popeye's strength much more, gave him his RealityWarping powers, his love of spinach, and made Bluto and his rivalry with Popeye much more prominent.

** In "Seein' Red, White 'an Blue," Bluto fakes an injury to keep from being conscripted into the Navy. But when sees Japanese saboteurs beating Popeye up, he gets mad ("Dey can't do dat to da Navy!"). After a can of spinach between them, Popeye and Bluto clean house with the saboteurs and Bluto signs up.

** In "Seein' Red, White 'an Blue," Bluto fakes an injury to keep from being conscripted into the Navy. But when sees Japanese saboteurs beating Popeye up, he gets mad ("Dey can't do dat to da Navy!"). After a can of Spinach between them, Popeye and Bluto clean house with the saboteurs and Bluto signs up.
** A Brodax short had aliens interrupting Olive's masquerade party with the beings knocking out both Brutus and Popeye. Brutus administers Popeye's spinach to him and Popeye sets things right again.
* EvilCounterpart: Bluto to Popeye, to a certain degree.%%How?

%%* EvilCounterpart: Bluto to Popeye, to a certain degree.%%How?

* OverlyLongName: Again Swee'pea, who's full name is Scooner Seawell Georgia Washenting Christiffer Columbia Daniel Boom.

** ''The All New Popeye Hour'' by Hanna-Barbara fell victim to this as the show was under the strict FCC guidelines of the time. Popeye and Bluto could no longer punch each other in the face, nor could they fight over Olive, [[AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle and Popeye had to provide some sort of lesson in each episode, usually either health or safety tips.]]

* In "The Natural Thing To Do", the characters get a letter from the Popeye fan club requesting they tone down the violence and act more refined and gentlemanly.

** From a Famous cartoon, Bluto is carry off Olive who says "Let go of me, you...''you'' you!"