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The Strongman
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The Strongman (alternatively known as the muscleman carnie) is a term used to describe people who would perform feats of impressive strength and skill to entertain the less impressive masses, performing bent presses (since bench presses did not exist when the concept became a thing), they would support a large amount of weight held overhead, they would break chains, bend steel and a host of other fantastic examples of Super-Strength. In the late 20th century, the title of "strongmen" became associated with the sport of weight lifting, displaying raw strength through the lifting and pushing of heavy objects like rocks, refrigerators, even trains and massive vehicles, all in competition with other strongmen. There is no set uniform for the Strongman, but the most common image people attribute to him is a handlebar mustache and Pelts of the Barbarian made from the hide of a jungle cat, implying that they are wild, self-sufficient men who had hunted and skinned that dangerous animal themselves. Not to be confused with The Big Guy, who is the strongman of their Five-Man Band or similar team (even though they can overlap), and World's Strongest Man, who Strongmen are often advertised as. For the political definition of strongman, see The Generalissimo. See also Leotard of Power, for which strongmen are the Trope Maker. |
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In Watchmen, it's speculated that the costumed hero Hooded Justice (one of the earliest, strongest, and most brutal of the costumed heroes) was in fact a circus strongman named Rolf Muller, who mysteriously disappeared right around the time that Hooded Justice abruptly "retired" and vanished from public life. | |
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The Beano's earliest Breakout Character was Pansy Potter, the Strongman's Daughter, who inherited her father's abilities, and got into Does Not Know Her Own Strength scrapes. | |
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Wolfgang from Don't Starve is labeled as such, and is fittingly the strongest character in the game. | |
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In The Unknown, Alonzo's Lovely Assistant Nanon falls in love with the circus' handsome strongman Malabar, which sends Alonzo into a Villainous Breakdown. | |
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Marvel Universe: The Circus of Crime has Bruto the Strongman, a strongman from Sweden who is exceptionally strong for a human, but who is no match for most superheroes. | |
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In one Droopy cartoon, Daredevil Droopy, Droopy and Spike compete for the role of acrobatic dog in a circus dog act. One tryout they have to do is a test of strength courtesy of Simpson the Strong Man. Spike tries to cheat by covering part of the barbells Droopy is to lift so that it looks like he's lifting one-pound weights as opposed to the original 1,000 pounds. As one might expect, Droopy succeeds in lifting the barbells with no trouble at all, but when a surprised Spike tries it, the strips covering the barbells come loose and they weigh down on Spike and send him crashing through the floor. | |
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In one episode of Phineas and Ferb, the titular stepbrothers convert their home into a fun house. One of the things found here is a strongman who is trying to lift up a feather that weighs a ton. As this happens, Phineas and Ferb are each holding up a 1,000-lb. weight by their feet. | |
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Hercules from Freaks is the strongman of the circus in which the film takes place. With the film's themes involving a divide between the freakshow and the rest of the circus, Hercules is Cleopatra's lover, conspiring with her in a plan where she marries Hans (a dwarf in the freakshow), kills him and the two run away with his inherited fortune. | |
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The Pink Panther cartoon "Come On In...The Water's Pink!" Has the panther upstaging a beach beefcake by inflating two balloons and placed at the end of a barbell rod. When the dude pushes the panther away, the barbells crash on top of him as if they weighed a ton. | |
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In Pokémon, Timburr and its evolutionsh evoke the image of the traditional Circus Strongman, with each form wielding a heavier object to bludgeon foes with, starting with Timburr wielding a large log, Gurdurr wielding a metal girder, and Conkeldurr dual-wielding massive slabs of concrete. | |
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Get Smart. In "The Greatest Spy on Earth", Max and 99 are investigating a diamond smuggling ring in a circus, which has the obligatory World's Strongest Man in Hondo. | |
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Pocito from Moshi Monsters works at a circus lifting weights to impress people. He also wins at the "Test Your Strength" game consistently until the Super Mosis beat him. | |
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Ghorgor Bey in Black Moon Chronicles was part of a traveling circus in his youth, which included a strongman who used his dumbbells as weapons. Ghorgor ended up being used as a prizefighter rather than another strongman, and even replaced the lead actress in a Romeo And Juliet-like play. | |
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Helen and Troy's Epic Road Quest: The last known case of female minotaurism was Gladys Hoffman, AKA Minotaur Minnie, who served as a strongwoman for P.T. Barnum's Traveling Museum, Menagerie, Caravan and Hippodrome. Considering it was the late 1800's, it was the best situation a woman in her situation could hope for. | |
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In the American Gods (2017) episode "Donar the Great", it is revealed that Mr. Wednesdaynote Odin Allfather and Mr. Nancynote Anansi had led a popular Burlesque troupe in the 1930s. Donar (the American incarnation of Thor) worked as their most popular act as their professional strongman "Donar the Great". He would eventually be found by the Friends of New Germany and hired as their own competitive strongman. | |
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A strongman figures in the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! episode "Bedlam in the Big Top." But he's not the perp—he and the circus midget ran away from the circus because of the ghost clown. | |
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Q'aman from The Longest Journey is a literal giant of a man (easily over 3 meters tall) who worked as a circus strongman in Corasan until he accidentally injured a prince's son and had to flee the country, literally swimming across the ocean to reach the Alais Island where April meets him in the game. | |
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Homestar Runner: In the Old Timey setting, an Alternate Universe set in a vaguely 1930s-ish setting, Strong Mad's equivalent is called The Strongman and he dresses in the costume of a circus Strong Man. | |
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Family Guy has Phineas and Barnaby, two Recurring Extras who mostly showed up early in the series. They are a pair of fitness-obsessed strongmen who have a tendency to act like Fish out of Temporal Water by doing things typical of The Gay '90s, like riding old time bicycles with giant front wheels and using a gramophone to play jazz, which they consider to be a new genre of music. | |
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Sherlock Holmes: In "The Veiled Lodger", the wife of a traveling circus had an affair with the circus strongman and conspired with him to murder her abusive husband. He made a club that left wounds similar to a lion's paw, the plan being to crush his skull and blame the lion but it all went wrong, the husband was killed and the lion blamed, but the wife ended up horribly disfigured. | |
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Dumbo (the live-action remake) has its resident circus strongman, named Rongo, whose strength comes in handy in the climax when he does his part to help the other circus performers save Mrs. Jumbo. | |
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Dark Seed II has the circus strongman Gargan, who is depressed about not being as popular as the other acts and is implied to be deliberately sabotaging the circus’s popularity. | |
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The City of Heroes Circus of Fear enemy group the Carnival of Shadows included strongmen among its members. Medical examination of a captured strongman revealed they're zombies. | |
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