Benoît Brisefer
Benoît Brisefer (French for "Benedict Ironbreaker", published as "Benny Breakiron" in English, Dutch: Steven Sterk) is a Belgian comic strip created in 1960 by Peyo (best known for the Smurfs) and published by Dupuis and later Le Lombard, about a little boy whose peaceful, innocent appearance, charm and good manners covers his possession of superhuman strength.
Benoît Brisefer is a blond-haired little boy who always wears a beret, a blue scarf, a red jacket and black shorts.
He is polite, honest and well-mannered, pays attention at school (he often quotes his teacher's life advice) and likes to help people in need.
He occasionally demonstrated other abilities such as super-breath not unlike Superman's (in Les Douze Travaux de Benoît Brisefer, he used it once to extinguish a fire).
He also seems to possess some degree of invulnerability (in Les Douze Travaux de Benoît Brisefer again, he fell from a flying plane and landed roughly on the ground by punching a hole in it, but he was unharmed).
The only such reference was in Le Cirque Bodoni where Choesels, wanting to attract publicity and interest, told the journalists that Benoît belonged in a family of a Turk father and a Gypsy mother, one of 10 children.
His last Peyo-written adventure, Le Fétiche, showed that a lady called Madam Minou took care of his house and served him his breakfast, but lives in another part of town.
This makes it difficult for Benoît to play with other kids as he unintentionally breaks their toys: simply kicking a ball would cause it to burst.
He based her design on the (real-life) concept of the turtle robots devised by William Grey Walter but also made her more sentient.
[7] He also built her to look like a local lady, Mrs Adolphine, since the thick clothes she wore would cover the mechanics and the appearance of an old woman would explain her slowness.
However, Vladlavodka once got two of her circuits mixed up and as a result she became evil: holding up people at gunpoint, robbing banks and even becoming a crime lord under the name "Lady d'Olphine".
He is an expert marksman and can more than hold his own in a fight against multiple opponents (though he lacks his nephew's superhuman strength — of which he is unaware of in spite of Benoît's numerous attempts to show him).
