10 famous fictional sailors

Since the 1930s Popeye has been featured in comics, movies, video games, and t.v. cartoons. Most people think of this spinach-eating sailor fondly. Popeye is probably one of the most famous fictional sailors that we all know and enjoy. He has displayed Sherlock Holmes-like investigative prowess, scientific ingenuity, and successful diplomatic arguments. In animated cartoons, his pipe also proves to be highly versatile. Among other things, it has served as a cutting torch, jet engine, propeller, periscope, musical instrument, and a whistle with which he produces his trademark toot. He also eats spinach through his pipe, sometimes sucking in the can along with the contents.

Donald is characterized as a pompous, showboating duck wearing a sailor suit, cap, and bow tie. Along with his semi-unintelligible voice (as famously created by his original voice actor, Clarence “Ducky” Nash), Donald’s most dominant trait is his fiery temper, which is predominantly expressed through explosive tantrums and fits of quacking and squawking. Much of Donald’s anger stems from his exceptionally bad luck, though his misfortunes are often the karmic result of his own arrogance and greed. He has earned a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He has appeared in more films than any other Disney character and is the most published comic book character in the world outside of the superhero genre.

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He is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the One Piece manga series, created by Eiichiro Oda. Luffy made his debut in chapter one as a young boy who acquires the properties of rubber after accidentally eating one of the devil fruits the Gum-Gum Fruit. Luffy is the captain of the Straw Hat Pirates and dreamt of being a pirate since childhood from the influence of his idol Red-Haired Shanks. At the age of 17, Luffy sets sail from the East Blue Sea to the Grand Line in search of the legendary treasure, One Piece, to succeed Gol D. Roger as “King of the Pirates”.At age 7, after the Red-Haired Pirates left, Luffy was trained brutally by his grandfather, Garp, who tossed him into the bottomless ravine, left him in the jungle every night, and tied him up with balloons to send him flying in the sky, as a result, to become a strong man despite the young age. Luffy was left to train with his brothers, Ace and Sabo. At age 14, after Ace’s departed, he trained for 3 years to control his devil fruit powers before he departs to become a pirate.

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Captain Archibald Haddock is a fictional character in The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. He is one of Tintin’s best friends, a seafaring pipe-smoking Merchant Marine Captain. Bashi-bazouks! Bandits! Autocrats! Nincompoop! Miserable slugs! Sea gherkin! Visigoths! Everyone loves Captain Haddock from the Tintin comics for his exquisite insults that manage not to use even a single swear word. Despite his initial insatiable thirst for whiskey and rum, he later rises to become president of the Society of Sober Sailors (but even then, doesn’t give up the occasional Loch Lomond whisky). His sarcasm and irony remain the perfect counterbalance to the sometimes overpolite Tintin.

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He is the main antagonist of Disney‘s 1953 animated feature film, Peter Pan. He is an elegant, yet bloodthirsty pirate that commands The Jolly Roger, a brig docked on the shores of Neverland. Hook has long since abandoned sailing the high seas in favor of having revenge on Peter Pan for cutting off his left hand and feeding it to a crocodile, who has since been in constant pursuit of the captain. His two principal fears are the sight of his own blood (supposedly an unnatural color) and the crocodile who pursues him after eating the hand cut off by Pan While a worthy opponent for Peter, Hook is destined to fail sometimes because of Peter Pan’s ability to fly, but more often through the bumbling incompetence of his first mate, Mr. Smee.

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You can’t just ignore humming the famous song “Sindbad the Sailor” from the movie “Rock On”, reading his name. A seafaring merchant popular in Middle Eastern culture, Sinbad travels the seas in Asia and Africa in 7 voyages. He is described as hailing from Bagdad during the early Abbasid Caliphate (8th and 9th centuries A.D.). In the course of seven voyages throughout the seas east of Africa and south of Asia, he has fantastic adventures in magical realms, encountering monsters and witnessing supernatural phenomena.

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Corto Maltese is an adventurous sailor. It was created by the Italian comic book creator Hugo Pratt in 1967. The series features Corto Maltese, an enigmatic sea captain who lives in the first three decades of the 20th century. Born in Valletta on the island of Malta on 10 July 1887, the son of a sailor from Cornwall, and a gypsy from Seville. In his adventures full of real-world references, Corto has often crossed with real historical characters like the American author Jack London and his nurse Virginia Prentiss, the American outlaw Butch Cassidy, the German World War I flying ace Red Baron, and many others.

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A man shipwrecked and marooned on an island, tilling a field, salvaging things from wrecked ships, and attempting to “civilize” the rescued “savage” Friday that’s what most of us associate with Robinson Crusoe. But we should never forget the first part of the story, where Daniel Defoe presents Robinson as a lover of the sea and adventure, who embarks on his first voyage against his parents’ wishes and manages to break free from slavery. Defoe’s suspected inspiration was the real-life story of Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish sailor, who, after a disagreement with his captain, was asked to be put ashore on an uninhabited island in the early 18th century where he spent 4 solitary years.

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In some desi mention. Nemo identifies himself as Prince Dakkar, son of the Hindu raja of Bundelkhand, and a descendant of the Sultan Fateh Ali Khan Tipu of the Kingdom of Mysore. After the Rebellion of 1857, in which Dakkar lost both his family and his kingdom, the prince devoted himself to scientific research, ultimately building the Nautilus and cruising the seven seas with a crew of devoted followers. They gather bullion from various shipwrecks in the ocean, most notably from the hulks of the Spanish treasure fleet sunk during the Battle of Vigo Bay. Nemo claims to have no interest in terrestrial affairs but occasionally intervenes to aid people in distress. Nemo dies of unspecified natural causes on board the Nautilus, docked permanently inside Dakkar Grotto on Lincoln Island in the South Pacific. Cyrus Harding, leader of the castaways whom Nemo protected, administered the last rites, then submerged the Nautilus in the grotto’s waters

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Played by beloved and celebrated actor Jonny Depp, Jack Sparrow….sorry Captain Jack Sparrow represents an ethical pirate, with Captain Barbossa as his corrupt foil, though both characters are viewed as both light and dark tricksters. His true motives usually remain masked, and whether he is honorable or evil depends on the audience’s perspective. Later, he attempts to escape his blood debt to the legendary Davy Jones while fighting the East India Trading Company. In later adventures, he searches for the Fountain of Youth and the Trident of Poseidon.

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For all the GOT fans out there. Infamous smuggler of the Seven Kingdoms, often piloting his black-sailed ship into harbors in the dead of night. Davos is humble and loyal to Stannis, due to the life and opportunities that Stannis’ knighting him presented to Davos and his family, despite sometimes disagreeing with Stannis’s methods. The food that Davos brought allowed Stannis’s men to hold on for almost a year until Eddard Stark arrived to relieve the siege. As a reward for this service, Stannis knighted Davos and awarded him nobility status with choice lands on Cape Wrath, for which Davos choose “Seaworth” as the name of his new house. However, also as a punishment for his years of criminal activity as a smuggler, Stannis personally “shortened” Davos’s left hand, cutting off the first joint from each finger. He keeps the bones of his severed fingertips in a pouch hung around his neck as a lucky charm.

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