Popeye

Popeye the Sailor is a famous comic strip character, later featured in popular animated cartoons. He was created by Elzie Crisler Segar and first appeared in the King Features comic strip Thimble Theatre on January 17 1929. Popeye is an independent sailor with a unique way of speaking, muscular forearms, and an ever-present corncob pipe. His strange, humorous, and often supernatural adventures take him all over the world, and place him in conflict with enemies such as the Sea Hag and King Zlobbo of Brutopia.

Characters in Popeye comics/cartoons

Thimble Theatre characters

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• Olive Oyl
• Castor Oyl (Olive Oyl's brother)
• Cole Oyl (Olive Oyl's father)
• Nana Oyl (Olive Oyl's mother) - A play on the slang term "Banana Oil"
• Ham Gravy (Olive Oyl's original boyfriend)
• Popeye the Sailor
• The Sea Hag
• Bernard (Sea Hag's Vulture)
• J. Wellington Wimpy
• George W. Geezil (the local cobbler who hates Wimpy)
• Rough House (a cook who runs a local restaurant, The Rough House)
• Swee' Pea (Popeye's "adopted" baby son in the comics, Olive's cousin in the cartoons)
• King Blozo
• Toar
• Goons, Specifically Alice the Goon
• Poopdeck Pappy (Popeye's 99-year-old long-lost father, also a sailor)
• Eugene the Jeep
• Oscar
• Brutus (named after the classical Brutus; an adaptation of the animated Bluto character)
• Dufus
• Granny
• Bernice
• O. G. Watasnozzle (appeared in an episode "Popeye and Son")

Popeye cartoon characters

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• Bluto
• Pipeye, Pupeye, Poopeye, Peepeye (Popeye's identical nephews)
• Shorty (Popeye's shipmate during the World War II period)