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Yup!
~ Popo's famous catchphrase.
It's Ice Climber.
~ Popo[2]

Popo is the titular main protagonist of Nintendo's video game franchise, Ice Climber. Popo is Nana's partner and serves as the leader of the pioneer mountaineer duo, the Ice Climbers. Typically, Popo is dressed in an indigo inuit parka outfit, and wields a wooden mallet as his sole combat-oriented weapon.

Reflecting his characteristics as a pioneer mountaineer, Popo, alongside Nana, has relentlessly scaled numerous glacial mountains and reach the summit for a collection of stolen vegetables from a condor, who typically stolen various kinds of vegetables, including eggplants, carrots, cucumbers, turnips and more. Meanwhile, Nana and Popo also had to be sentient of other destructive and threatening obstacles, such as falling stalagmites of ice and strong gusts of wind, further combined with opposing species who roam around the mountains, such as Polar Bears, Topis and Nitpickers. Outside of that, Popo typically goes out of his routine and protects and guides Nana to follow him throughout all of his whereabouts, even if it leads either of them into additional danger.

Popo, alongside Nana, is voiced by Sanae Kobayashi, alongside Kaede in Elfen Lied, Allen Walker from D.Gray-man, Reiko Natsume from Natsume's Book of Friends and Alexis Rhodes from Yu-Gi-Oh! GX.

What Makes Him Love Exalted?[]

  • Popo has a blood bond with Nana, which is a long-standing custom practiced around the world that involves a pair of distinct people swearing loyalty to one another. Thus, Popo and Nana have pristine loyalty and dedication to each other, promising each other to never leave each other behind, and have been relentlessly reliant on each other for paramount and superb teamwork. This is also demonstrated in the scene during the opening movie of Super Smash Bros. Melee, where Popo and Nana high-five each other with a small heart emerging from where their hands meet.[3]
  • As a sophisticated and egalitarianic leader of the duo, Popo wastes no time protecting and guiding Nana during their adventures.
  • While Popo's reliance on Nana for teamwork can benefit their enemies to separate the duo rather effortlessly, Popo will have the capability to immediately return to Nana and defend her from their enemies, saving Nana from her doom.
  • Popo shows pure friendship, gratification and care for Nana.
    • This is demonstrated in the opening movie of Super Smash Bros. Melee, where Popo climbs the Icicle Mountain and stands on an unstable platform of ice, which dissolves, but Nana arrives to grab his hand to save him in a nick of time just before he starts falling towards the bottom of the entire mountain. Popo smiles thankfully for Nana's savior, further encouraging Popo's support for her.[4]
  • Like Nana, Popo is shown to be very sympathetic and harmonizing, as despite being a fighter himself, he is ironically not entertained in watching rivalry, clashing between arch-enemies and heroes fighting against each other, demonstrated when Popo and Nana spectate the fight between Lucario and Meta Knight in fear when accessing the top of the Glacial Peak the Subspace Emissary. Shortly after the fight, Lucario and Meta Knight reconciliate with each other, which delights Popo and Nana now that they are teaming up with each other instead of continuing to be rivals, which means that Popo not only has pleasure in rivals redeeming each other, but also means that Popo desires redeeming with enemies/villains themselves to encourage teaming up with them as well. This genuinely makes Popo a harmonizing pacifist.
  • Popo does not show grudge against Meta Knight and Lucario for boarding the Battleship Halberd and leaving the him and Nana to fall down to the canyon after the Halberd crashed the Great Fox into the summit of the Glacial Peak.
  • Alongside Nana, Popo has saved the world from Tabuu in the Subspace Emissary, as well as from Galeem and Dharkon in the World of Light.

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