Popeye



"Well I Yam What I Yam And That's All That I Yam, I'm Popeye The Sailor Man!"

- Popeye

Popeye is the main hero of the Popeye series of cartoons, comic books and even the live-movie - he is portrayed as a tough but relatively harmless sailor who has no time for troublemakers or bullies and is in love with Olive Oyl.

He finds himself under attack on an almost daily basis by the brutish Bluto - who is also in love with Olive Oyl but is a much bigger, meaner individual than Popeye so thinks he can win her simply by beating Popeye up or causing trouble.

Of course Bluto remains overconfident of his size and strength and seems to always forget Popeye's special power - whenever Popeye eats spinach he transforms into a virtually unstoppable super-strong sailor whose strength knows no bounds.. through the power of spinach Popeye has defeated Bluto time and time again and won the heart of Olive Oyl.

In the live-action movie, in which he is played by then-new actor Robin Williams, Popeye despises eating spinach. However, when he is forced into eating it anyway, he, like his cartoon counterpart, becomes super-strong and beats up Bluto.