History ComicStrip / Popeye

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The boxing vamp in "Never Kick A Woman" seems to be a pastiche of Mae West and Sonja Henie.

%%* DamselInDistress: Olive Oyl.

* DamselInDistress: Olive Oyl.

[[WorldsStrongestMan The One Tough Gazooka.]] [[BullyHunter The Beater of Palookas Who Aren't On the Up and Square.]] [[BruiserWithASoftCenter The Pal of Those Who Keep Up Good Be-hav-or.]] [[PowerUpFood Spinach Eater.]]

[[WorldsStrongestMan The One Tough Gazooka.]] [[BullyHunter The Beater of Palookas Who Aren't On the Up and Square.]] [[BruiserWithASoftCenter The Pal of Those Who Keep Up Good Be-hav-or.]]

[[caption-width-right:309: "[[CharacterCatchphrase I yam wot I yam and that's all wot I yam.]]"]]

-->'''Olive: (after seeing that her fish pet is crying in it's aquarium) Oh, the poor little fish. Cooped up in that small bowl. I'm gonna set him free. (Olive then releases her pet fish back into the ocean)
-->'''Popeye (shocked and outraged) What? What? (angry) Hey. Oh, well, blow me down. (Popeye ties up Olive by wrapping her up in ropes from top of her shoulders to the bottom part of her skirt with a lifesaver on top of the rope) Can you beat that?
-->'''Olive: (yells in disbelief and panic)
-->'''Popeye: (grabs and pulls Olive up while she struggles to move with rope tied up around her body and twirling around her legs, then tosses Olive from the ship into the water, Olive makes a huge splash that gets her all wet after being tossed into water while tied up with rope and having a lifesaver around her shoulders, Popeye then returns to do his chores, feeling satisfied about Olive's comeuppance)
-->'''Olive: (starts drowning and struggles to keep herself afloat while distressingly pleading for Popeye to take the ropes off her and rescue her from drowning) Popeye, I wanna take the ropes off.
-->'''Popeye: (ignores Olive's pleas to rescue her from drowning while happily singing and doing his chores) You can bet your last nickel that women is fickle. Says Popeye the sailorman (Popeye then whistles with his pipe).

** "Females is Fickle" -- Olive's pet goldfish jumps in the sea, and she makes Popeye go in after him. After he goes through a lot of trouble to get him back, Olive decides the fish would be happier freed and tosses him back in the sea. Outraged about how his pursuit turned out to be for nothing, Popeye then decides to give Olive her comeuppance in form of tying her up by wrapping her in ropes and tossing her over the side of the ship (but with a lifesaver on). Olive distressingly pleads for Popeye to take the ropes off her, but Popeye completely ignores Olive's pleas to rescue her from drowning as he already returned to do his chores and sing happily.

* CanonWelding: Randy Milholland has introduced multiple characters from other King Features comics - Little Iodine (now a friend of Deezil's), Bunky the baby, and, in flashbacks, [[ComicStrip/TheKatzenjammerKids the Katzenjammer Kids]]. He's also depicted their superhero comics - [[Franchise/FlashGordon]], [[ComicStrip/ThePhantom The Phantom]] and [[ComicStrip/MandrakeTheMagician Mandrake the Magician]] - as [[RecursiveCanon fiction within the setting]].

* ArcWelding: While Randy Milholland wasn't able to include Popeye's nephews (as Popeye is an only child) or Popeye Jr. (as he despises the very notion of the character) in his run on the Popeye Sunday strips, he was able to include Olive Oyl's niece Deezil Oyl, by also reintroducing an obscure character form the 20's, Olive's sister-in-law Cylinda Oyl, now depicted as Deezil's mother.

* ConstructionZoneCalamity: The short "A Dream Walking" has Olive Oyle sleepwalk into a construction site, as Popeye and Bluto try to stop her from killing herself.

* CanonImmigrant: Bluto was created in 1932 for a particular story in the comic strip, but quickly started to appear in the cartoons. So quickly, in fact, that the comic strip owners later forgot they ''had'' created him, and briefly replaced him with [[{{Expy}} Brutus]] to hedge their bets. Later writers speculated that Bluto and Brutus were twins.
** In the comic strip, Randy Milholland eventually established that they are brothers.