Mr. Popo

[ahill1]

What do you imagine Mr. Popo is? It was said by Goku that he resides the temple before even the Kami-sama prior to the Namekian Kami, so he's one of the oldest characters we have knowledge of. So what do you imagine him to be? Is there an insight in some guidebook or an interview from Toriyama bringing up his origins?

 

[Classic Adamas]

He's burned.

 

[Warmmedown]

He's a genie. He can do magic stuff, rides a carpet like in old Arabian and Iranian literature. There are claims online that a Jewish scholar by the name of Ben Sherira wrote tales of King Solomon riding a magic carpet, but there's no evidence online that he's even real (he's said to be from about the 13th century CE. There is a scholar Hai ben Sherira from 1000CE, but no "Ben Sherira" from 1300) - in fact, the history websites that talk of Ben Sherira cite this https://www.jstor.org/stable/43472497?seq=1 which is a fictional story by a Pakistani-Australian author, which he describes as fiction in this interview (ctrl+F "magic carpet"): https://web.archive.org/web/20090101003118/http://us.penguingroup.com/static/rguides/us/passarola_rising.html

Don't believe everything you read online!

For example, this "history" site cites that work of fiction lmao
https://curioushistorian.com/magic-flying-carpets-the-historic-version-not-the-disney-version

Not the disney version, but still fiction you fucking mong

edit: gotta say though, just read the Pakistani guy's work on Jstor (have to make an account) and he writes it in a way that looks like a real actual academic paper, despite it being fiction. What a dick, confusing as hell.

 

[Captain Cadaver]

He's the long-thought impossible Male Jynx.

Seriously though, he's clearly inspired by a genie, which is about all we know. Him just being that and nothing beyond it would be in line with DB's (particularly Part 1's) somewhat Kafkaesque nature of slapping in such fantastical concepts and not needing any fleshing out beyond that.

 

[Hector]

Perhaps he's a projection of Zeno Sama.

 

[GreatSaiyaman123]

Both he and Karin were created by higher gods (Can’t remember whether it’s the Kaios or Kaioshins) to aid Kami-Sama, and they both originated from the Afterlife. I think this explanation is from his Daizenshuu bio I think, only remember Herms saying it.

 

[SSJ2]

[mention]GreatSaiyaman123[/mention] when was that said about Karin?