Although fun to watch cartoon desensitive or reduce the pain and the suffering a person must feel in times of danger. The ability of Popeye to compose himself after receiving full brute force from Brutus, and the ability of other cartoon characters to live even if they have been run over by cars and trucks, fired off as human cannon balls or turned into pancakes are situations that condition young and avid viewers to the idea that pain is not pain ful at all.