In Popeye comics, is spinach just extra powerful, or does Popeyes metabolism process it differently? What happens to other people who eat spinach?
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In Popeye comics, is spinach just extra powerful, or does Popeyes metabolism process it differently?
I think there was a Popeye cartoon where Swee' Pea ate the spinach. The results were pretty devastating.
It's the spinach (Olive Oyl used it at least once)
Popeye force feed him spinach so he'd get cared for by nurse Olive
Do you guys like spinach?
Yeah, I don't get why people hate it so much, maybe it's the texture. It's not that different from any other green stuff my mom made me eat like kale and whatnot
French comic creator Boulet have a good comic on this.
"You don't eat REAL spinach! you eat free-range, fresh. green. hollistic hippie spinach!"
^takes out a CAN of spinach
*THIS is REAL spinach!"
From what I can tell people who hate it are also the type of people who add literally nothing to it. A bit of butter can do wonders. Also pref spinach on sandwiches and such over lettuce.
Others merely adopted the spinach. Popeye was raised in it, molded by it.
You may on to something here.
Why doesn’t Bluto just eat spinach then?
https://popeye.fandom.com/wiki/Spinach
>Popeye is not the only character in the franchise to eat spinach; other characters have consumed it as well. For cases involving female antagonists such as the Sea Hag, since Popeye cannot clobber women, it is Olive Oyl who ingests the vegetable in order to defeat the villainess. In the theatrical shorts Hospitaliky, its color remake For Better or Nurse and Beaus Will Be Beaus, Popeye force-feeds Bluto spinach. At least in the animated cartoons, everybody would gain a surge of power comparable to Popeye's. Interestingly enough, while being so powerful, it is commercially available in Popeye's stories. Literally anyone can buy a can of spinach at the nearby grocery, but Popeye seems the only consumer. Brutus once managed to monopolize the spinach market to depower Popeye, but the villain himself did not consume it. In the television series Popeye and Son, Popeye Junior would eat spinach to increase his strength although he dislikes the vegetable.
>In Popeye comics, is spinach just extra powerful, or does Popeyes metabolism process it differently?
Popeye doesn't really have the superhuman bursts of strength in the comic so much as he's always ludicrously strong and durable which he attributes to eating his spinach. He doesn't whip out cans and inhale the stuff like in the cartoons but just eats it as a regular thing.
There are other people just as strong as he is but they just can't outlast him in a fight.
I was about to ask if he ever uses spinach as a power-up in comics, but I guess you answered it. I've only seen him do it in cartoons. In the comics I've read, it looks more like he just enjoys the taste of spinach and promotes eating it because of its health benefits.
That's some literal archeological weight gain fetish bullshit and you cannot convince me otherwise.
What the frick.
IIRC the spinach thing was something exaggerated for the cartoons
Popeye was a newspaper comic strip so and so moved along in a small pace for plot lines and didn't offer much in quick bursts
They couldn't adapt the strip themselves so they worked in a formula for the cartoon with spinach ex machina
This doesn't matter because Kratos can kill his creator. Yes, he is that powerful.
>Killing your creator is a power feat
(you) could kill your parents too, probably barehanded if you got the drop on them. It doesn't say much for powerscaling.