Nes Popeye Wrong Character Name

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matmico399
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Nes Popeye Wrong Character Name

Postby matmico399 » June 20th, 2018, 6:52 am

In the NES review of Popeye, the villain is incorrectly identified is Brutus. His actual name is Bluto.

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Re: Nes Popeye Wrong Character Name

Postby pacman000 » June 20th, 2018, 8:30 am

There's an interesting story there: https://www.straightdope.com/columns/re ... or-brutus/

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Re: Nes Popeye Wrong Character Name

Postby snakeboy » June 20th, 2018, 10:16 am

From Wikipedia:

"After the theatrical Popeye cartoon series ceased production in 1957, Bluto's name was changed to Brutus because it was incorrectly believed that Paramount Pictures, distributors of the Fleischer Studios (later Famous Studios) cartoons, owned the rights to the name "Bluto". King Features actually owned the name, as Bluto had been originally created for the comic strip. Due to a lack of thorough research, they failed to realize this and reinvented him as Brutus to avoid supposed copyright problems.[3] "Brutus" (often pronounced "Brutusk" by Popeye) appears in the 1960–1962 Popeye the Sailor television cartoons, with his physical appearance changed, making him morbidly obese rather than muscular. He normally sported a blue shirt and brown pants, and didn't appear to wear any socks. The character reverted to Bluto for Hanna-Barbera's The All-New Popeye Hour, the 1980 live-action Popeye movie, as well as the 1987 Popeye and Son series also by Hanna-Barbera. The character was also named Bluto in the 2004 movie Popeye's Voyage: The Quest for Pappy. Brutus later appeared in the Popeye arcade game released by Nintendo."

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Re: Nes Popeye Wrong Character Name

Postby matmico399 » June 20th, 2018, 12:10 pm

Great read! Thanks folks!


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