Popeye the Sailor Man

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Popeye the Sailor man
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From Sweethaven
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Debut Match
Popeye the Sailor Man Pin
L
J-Bomb
8chanmania LIX
First Victory
Popeye the Sailor Man Pin
L
J-Bomb
8chanmania LIX
First Championship

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Popeye the Sailor Man is the protagonist of the eponymous comic and cartoon series.

Bio[edit | edit source]

As some other places might tell you, Popeye originally was nothing more than a side character in the 1929 comic strip Thimble Theatre. As the same unreliable source might tell you, Popeye eventually proved so popular that the entire comic strip was renamed after and rebuilt around him; resulting in the one-eyed sailor that gained super-human powers by eating spinach straight from the tin.

The story you didn't hear is that Popeye and his entire spinach fetish actually were a clever advertising ploy by the American spinach industry. Faced with growing competition from otherwise perishable foods due to the mass introduction of tin cans during the 1920s, Big Spinach bribed doctors, the government, and comic authors to establish spinach as an iron-rich health food.

While this saved the spinach industry from the worst of the potential sales losses, the attempt of unwitting parents to forcibly feed their toddlers spinach by the spoonful led to plenty of vomit-stained napkins and plenty of psychological trust issues. Studies comparing forced spinach intake since the 1930s with gun violence and increasing divorce rates show, if nothing else, a stark correlation.

In 8chanmania[edit | edit source]

Popeye the Sailor Man fought in 8chanmania LIX. He apparently forgot to bring his stupid you-know-what, as the sailor promptly got sunk by J-Bomb.