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Haroun El Poussah

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Haroun El Poussah is a middle-aged, corpulent man whose main characteristic is his extremely docile nature. He can be seen as the embodiment of a benevolent and benign ruler. He has never been shown to have any conflict with any of his subjects. Because of this, he is extremely popular and loved
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The plots never work, and Haroun El Poussah remains completely oblivious of them, confident that Iznogoud loves him and wants only the best for him, often calling him "my good Iznogoud". It is shown that everyone in
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All Haroun El Poussah cares about is eating, sleeping and having lazy fun. He spends most of his time asleep, waking only when it's time to eat, when some servant shows him a fancy western object or when his
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Iznogoud (the protagonist) appears to invite him to some sort of new activity, which invariably turns out to be a trap of the plot to get rid of him and get Iznogoud elected as the new caliph.
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Haroun El Poussah has three brothers: Deuroun El Poussah, Troiroun El Poussah and Quatroun El Poussah (each of the syllables before the
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is a French number going from two to four), whom Iznogoud confronted in the album
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on January 15, 1962. After four years, the strip shifted to Goscinny's
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Haroun El Poussah's name is a pun on the historical caliph
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to describe a fat man, in connection with the image of
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