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Haroun El PoussahHaroun El Poussah (also called Haroun El Plassid in English or Harun-El-Pullah in Finnish) is the caliph in the Iznogoud comics. Haroun El Poussah is a middle-aged, obese man whose main characteristic is his extreme placidity. He can be seen as the embodiment of a benevolent and benign ruler: he has never been shown to have even the slighest conflict with any of his subjects. Because of this, he is extremely popular and loved among his people. Haroun El Poussah's name is a pun on the historical Caliph, Harun al-Rashid. "Poussah" is a French word that is used to describe a fat man, which is what Haroun El Poussah is. In fact, 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 grand vizier Iznogoud appears to invite him to some sort of new activity, which invariably turns out to be a trap to get rid of him and Iznogoud to get elected as the new caliph. 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, and Haroun El Poussah has also those feelings for him, always calling him "My good Iznogoud". Haroun El Poussah's caliphate is actually a democracy, with elections for the new caliph held every ten years. However, because only the current caliph has the right to vote, every election always has the same result. Haroun El Poussah has three brothers: Deuroun El Poussah, Troiroun El Poussah and Quatroun El Poussah (both of the syllabes behind the "roun" is a French number going from two to four), of which Iznogoud confronted in the album "Enfin Calife!" ("Caliph at last!"). It is interesting to note that, originally, the Iznogoud comics were called "The Adventures of Caliph Haroun El Poussah". The problem was that Haroun El Poussah was too weak a character to be consecrated as hero of the comic strip, while Iznogoud was the life of the story. The title was then passed on to Iznogoud, even though he was the villain. El Poussah, Haroun
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