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A huge Canadian lumberjack that would love to give his opponents [[Bear Hug]]s. He lives in the wilderness with all them woodland critters.

Appears in: Arcade Super Punch-Out, SNES, Wii

Voiced in the Wii game by: [[Richard Newman]]

* [[Badass Beard]] - Presumably, he grew his facial hair to make up for his lack of hair on his head.

* [[Badass Boast]]:

{{quote|'''Hugger''': Hey, hoser! I'm gonna hit you so hard, yer gonna see Northern Lights, eh!}}

* [[Bear Hug]] - Obviously.

* [[Big Eater]]: He could outrival King Hippo or a serious Piston Hondo in training if possible.

* [[Big Fun]]: He even stops to dance occasionally. In the middle of a boxing match.

* [[Big No]]: ''"Timber!!" (thud)''

* [[Boisterous Bruiser]] - Just ''look'' [http://punchout.wikia.com/wiki/File:Bear_Hugger.jpg at him].

* [[Calling Your Attacks]] - Both before ("NEED A HUG?" "CATCH-N-RELEASE!") and after ("Salmon Arm!" "He scores!") his attacks.

* [[Canada, Eh?]]: He lives in the woods, calls his opponents "hosers", drinks maple syrup, has chest hair in the shape of a ''pine tree'' and plays hockey as part of his training. This is more obvious in the Wii game, which was actually ''made'' in Canada, so it seems as though the people at Next Level Games like [[Self-Deprecation|making fun of their own nationality]].

* [[Development Gag]]: The gaming studio that developed the Wii version is located in Salmon Arm, British Columbia in Canada. Which is where they decided to have Bear Hugger—and even named one of his moves—from.

* [[Everything's Worse with Bears]]: Subverted in the Wii version, when he encounters a bear in his opening montage... who then becomes his trainer.

* [[Fat Bastard]]: He's actually pretty friendly when he's not slamming you to the ground.

* [[Friend to All Living Things]] In the Wii version he befriend squirrels, and a ''bear.''

* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: You might recognize him as [[Beast Wars|Rhinox]] or [[Street Fighter|cartoon M. Bison]].

* [[More Teeth Than the Osmond Family]]

* [[Mountain Man]]

* [[Nice Hat]]: Wears one in Title Defense mode. And it's where his pet squirrel hangs out.

* [[Retcon]]: Although it was [[All There in the Manual]] and not the game itself, he was supposed to be from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, in the SNES game, while the Wii game has him come from Salmon Arm, British Columbia, instead.

* [[Ridiculously Cute Critter]]: Title Defense version in the Wii sees him wearing a hat that houses a squirrel that wears boxing gloves, complete with ridiculously cute sound effects.

* [[Self-Deprecation]]: As mentioned above, the Wii game was developed by the Canadian developer Next Level Games, and in that game he's ''more'' stereotypically Canadian than in the previous games.

* [[Stout Strength]]

* [[Took a Level in Badass]]: Went from being the opening opponent in the second arcade game to the second boxer of the game in the SNES version to a Major Circuit fighter in the Wii version. Apparently bears make really good boxing trainers.

A kickboxer from Hong Kong who bares more than a little resemblance to Bruce Lee.

Appears in: Arcade Super Punch-Out, SNES

* [[Anime Hair]]

* [[Bruce Lee Clone]]

* [[Combat Pragmatist]]: He kicks in a boxing match.

* [[Healing Factor]]: If you let him meditate midfight, he'll recover a quarter of his health.

* [[Kiai]]

* [[Shout-Out]]: To both [[Bruce Lee]] (in look) and [[Jackie Chan]] (in name)

He comes from Moscow, Russia, usually with a bottle of vodka (or soda) in his hands. As opposed to most of the other fighters, Soda Pop is a lefty, [[Damn You, Muscle Memory!|making him a bit harder to read.]]

Appears in: Arcade Super Punch-Out, NES, Wii

Voiced in the Wii game by: Ihor Mota

* [[Alcohol Hic]]

* [[Berserk Button]]: In the Wii version, he gets mad if you star punch him or knock him down, but he goes absolutely ballistic if you knock the bottle out of his hand.

* [[Badass Mustache]]

* [[Bald of Awesome]]

* [[Bowdlerise]]: In the arcade, he was named Vodka Drunkenski, but in the NES version, this was changed to Soda Popinski (and yet the references to him being drunk were [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|left in somehow]].) The Wii version also uses "Soda Popinski", but it seems to actually be soda this time—the bottle is clearly plastic like a soft drink bottle because it crumples instead of shattering when Soda crushes it, and the bubbles that appear during the match resemble soft drink fizz instead of the froth of some alcoholic drinks. He does still have some references to being drunk, however, as he at one point tells Little Mac (in Russian) that he will crush him, but the dialect in which he says it sounds like he intends to run over Mac with his car.

* [[Drunken Master]]

* [[Frothy Mugs of Water]]: More like green bottle of "soda".

* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: NES version + Vodka bowdlerized to Soda = kid friendliness, yet he still has win quotes suggesting that rather than on a sugar rush, he's absolutely shitfaced.

* [[Good Bad Bugs]]: It's unkown whether the strategy of blocking Soda's uppercuts on the NES was intentional or a glitch, but it makes beating him insanely easy.

* [[Healing Factor]]: If you let him take a drink of his soda midfight on the Wii version, he'll recover almost all of his health.

* [[Husky Russkie]]

* [[Jabba Table Manners]]: In the Wii version, he drinks soda like it were going out of style, but he's a sloppy drinker, getting far more of it on the mat and on himself than in his mouth.

* [[Little No|Little Nyet]] - In the Wii version, knock him down enough times without a TKO or KO animation and he'll eventually run out of soda. His response is this.

* [[Lzherusskie]] - Nicely averted in the Wii version, as he actually speaks legitimate Russian, with a Russian voice actor no less.

* [[Punny Name]]

* [[Soviet Superscience]]: Implied to be how his Title Defense soda pop was engineered.

* [[The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard]]: He can recover health during his intermission sequence on the Wii version. Slightly subverted since you can do the same thing (once per match), but he can do it in every intermission! At least they're skippable, and if you do so, [[Denied Food as Punishment|he actually WON'T recover]].

* [[The Giant]]: Standing at, 6'6", he is the tallest character in the (Wii) game, only just taller than the 6'5" [[Scary Black Man|Mr. Sandman]].

* [[That Russian Squat Dance]]: One of his victory animations.

* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: Soda Popinski ''loves'' soda. He can't get enough of it. Drinking a single drop can refill him with energy immediately. Also, when you punch him, you hear fizzy noises, presumably because he is somehow that full of soda.

* [[Turns Red]]: Pink, too!

* [[Vodka Drunkenski]]: [[Trope Namer]].

A mystic from Mumbai, India. His special attack is the "Magic Punch", which takes on different forms depending on the game, but always involves him splitting into clones of himself and fooling Mac by having both him and his clones "attack" at once.

Appears in: Arcade Super Punch-Out, NES, Wii

Voiced in the Wii game by: Sumit Seru

* [[Doppleganger Attack]]

* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: He's speaking fluent Hindi in the Wii version. And in Title Defense mode, when he goes into his magic punch attack, he essentially shouts out "Earthquake!"

* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: One of his taunts in the Wii version has him telling Little Mac (in Hindi) to go suck on his mother's breast.

* [[Mid-Air Bobbing]]

* [[Power Floats]]: His TD Tiger Punch in the Wii version.

* [[Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs]]: In his arcade appearance he does a punch rush similar to Piston Hurricane.

* [[Sim Sim Salabim]]

* [[Teleport Spam]]: All over the place.

* [["Wake-Up Call" Boss]]: In the NES version he's considered the first fighter to present a challenge.

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An egotistical Hollywood bodybuilder who is the World Circuit champ in most games. His spinning clothesline punch is his greatest and fastest attack.

Appears in: Arcade Super Punch-Out (champion), NES (champion), SNES (champion), Wii

Voiced in the Wii game by: Mike Inglehart

* [[All-American Face]]: Started out that way (sorta), but acts like a [[Heel]] in Punch-Out Wii (i.e. knocking the ref over)

* [[The Casanova]]: The chicks dig him. It helps he's rich.

* [[Cool Shades]]: "Oh, these sunglasses? You can't afford these sunglasses!"

* [[Eagle Land]]

* [[Everything's Better with Spinning]]: His trademark move, the Super Spin Punch, comes in two flavors. He either throws a single punch which hurts a ''lot'', or he rears back and throws multiple punches, each and every one of them being an instant knockdown.

* [[Expy]]: Reportedly of pro wrestler Superstar Billy Graham.

* [[Hair Color Dissonance]]: His hair is silver-blonde. It looks gray. As a result, many people think he's older than he is (twenty-seven in the Wii version).

* [[Large Ham]]

* [[Non-Idle Rich]]: So rich, in fact, that when you knock him out in the Wii version, ''dollar bills'' fly off him.

* [[Pec Flex]]: His trademark taunt. He steps it up in the Wii by flexing his butt at the player, too.

* [[Produce Pelting]] (in Title Defense mode on the Wii. Guess he's not so much an [[All-American Face]] in that version anymore, is he?)

* [[Surfer Dude]]: In the Wii version; his theme is surf music, he says things like "Dude" and "BOGUS" when he misses, and announces one of his combos with "HANG TEN!"

** He was very much a [[Surfer Dude]] in earlier versions of the game. The Wii version simply turned it up to eleven.

* [[Totally Radical]]: Wii

* [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]]: Not so much a boy however.

** More a case of [[Younger Than They Look]], as he's in his mid 20's, yet apparently due to the Hollywood lifestyle and constant sun exposure, looks like he's about 50. Similar to [[Lindsay Lohan]].