Popeye enters the public domain January 1st in Europe.
“-Popeye once lifted the earth in one of the Fleischer shorts that was spoofing Greek Mythology.
-He dog paddled an island that both he and Olive Oyl were stranded on back to the mainland.
-With a lasso, he pulled the Grand Canyon together just so he could reach Bluto on the other side
- He knocked a comet that would have destroyed the earth into tiny bits.
-He punched Bluto so hard, Bluto hit the full moon, which was blown apart so that only a crescent was left
-He pulled the moon closer to earth
-He stopped a martian invasion by punching the fleet all the way back to Mars. - He pulled the world’s continents back together again with only a lasso.
-He knocked Bluto so hard, Bluto broke through the time stream and deaged into an infant
-He knocked Bluto so hard, he destroyed the constellations and altered the night sky.
-He lassoed the sun and pulled it up just so the morning would come quicker. -He blew the sun out like a candle so he could get some private time with Olive Oyl.
-In an episode spoofing Exodus where he played Moses, he got tired of waiting for God and parted the Red Sea himself.
-Taking spinach renders him immune to magic. Bluto once tried to turn him into a frog, but he punched the spell back at Bluto. Also Zeus tried to zap Popeye with a lightning bolt, but Popeye punched it back at him, thus defeating Zeus by frying him.
-Popeye can ressurect himself from the dead with spinach. His nephews force fed some to his lifeless body. Popeye’s soul returned to his body, which got up and proceeded to beat the crap out of Bluto.
-Popeye resisted being wiped out of existence by an animator. His pipe was fed spinach, Popeye willed himself back, and then he beat up the animator.
Which brings me to…
-Popeye can break the 4th wall. A real boy in the movie audience threw some spinach into the screen to Popeye. Popeye got up and hit Bluto so hard, Bluto was knocked into the real world.
-Popeye can resist mind control after eating spinach. An evil hypnotist hypnotized Popeye into thinking he was a chicken. Popeye ate some spinach, snapped out of it, and then counter hypnotized Bluto into thinking he was a baby.
-Popeye even beats reality. He can do stuff like turn a lion into a leopard skin coat just by punching it. Not even a lion skin coat, a leopard skin one.”
-Courtesy the /co/ Popeye-pasta
Also, he rescued Pappy from Goon Island by grabbing the film off it's sprockets, and flinging the Goons into the void.
