List of fictional bears

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Winnie the Pooh Teddy Bear.
Winnie the Pooh Teddy Bear.

Bears are very common fictionalized and personified animals, and can be found in almost every single kind of fiction. The following is an attempt to list and categorize all the bears that appear in all forms of fiction.

This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy certain standards for completeness. Revisions and sourced additions are welcome.

Contents

[edit] Bears in books

[edit] Bears in plays

[edit] Animated bears

Yogi Bear
Yogi Bear

[edit] Bears in comics and cartoons

[edit] Bears in film

[edit] Puppet bears

[edit] Bears in advertising

  • Smokey Bear, mascot of the U.S. Forest Service. He is also only semi-fictional, as he was based on a real orphaned bear cub also named Smokey.
  • the ICEE Polar Bear, an animated mascot for The ICEE Company, as seen on TV ads.
Peppy the polar bear
Peppy the polar bear
  • Peppy the Polar Bear from British Fox's Glacier Mint commercials
  • Talking polar bear from British Cresta soft drink commercials of the 1970s
Smokey Bear
Smokey Bear

[edit] Bears that advertise alcohol

[edit] Bears in poetry and song

  • Fuzzy wuzzy
was a bear
Fuzzy wuzzy had no hair
So Fuzzy wuzzy wasn't fuzzy, was he.
Algy met a bear.
A bear met Algy.
The bear was bulgy.
The bulge was Algy.
  • The bear who went over the mountain, to see what he could see
  • "Teddy Bear," a No. 1 hit in 1957 for Elvis Presley and one of the cornerstone songs of his career.
  • The picnicking bears in John Walter Bratton's lilting 1907 song, "Teddy Bears' Picnic." (Originally the "Teddy Bears' Two-Step.")
  • "Teddy Bear," the title character of a 1976 country No. 1 hit by Red Sovine. Teddy Bear was the CB handle for a young crippled, fatherless boy, who longed to ride along with truckers.

[edit] Bears on television

[edit] Teddy bears

Microsoft Bear
Microsoft Bear

[edit] Animatronic Bears

[edit] Miscellaneous

  • Banjo, the star of the Banjo-Kazooie series.
  • Cresent Grizzly — a maverick from Mega Man X5 who is designed like a grizzly bear.
  • Drop Bear, an urban mythical marsupial in Australia said to be similar to the Koala Bear.
  • Bear from Zoo Tycoon
  • Gladly, the Cross-Eyed Bear, a mondegreen created from the misheard lyrics of a hymn (Gladly, the Cross I'd bear…). Used as the name of Baby Grumpling's teddy bear in British comic strip The Perishers, separately used as a character in The Friends of Fairwood Forest series, and separately in a novel by Evan Hunter.
  • Grizzly Slash/Crescent Grizzly, a Maverick from Mega Man X.
  • Kuma — a character from the Tekken fighting series.
  • Nate Osworth is a bear that updates his blog on the popular MySpace community.
  • Tottles the Bear — a character in children's stories.
  • Ursa Major and Ursa Minor the two bear constellations, sometimes also referred to as the big dipper, or the drinking gourd.
  • Tequila Teddy and J.D. from their own message board,[1] and Teddy Bear Gumbo [2]
  • Bob T. Bear Esq. a spy Teddy Bear from the UK [3]
  • Pudgie and Gladstone from a blog of several Teddy Bears and plushes called Furry Thoughts for Fuzzy Times [4]
  • Mawson, an expert Teddy Bear from Australia, who helps teach bears about being a bear [5]
  • Cuddly, a traveling blogger Teddy Bear from the UK [6]
  • Spaulding and Teddy, Internet Savvy American Teddy Bears, with their own Web Den [7] and Teddy Bear Journal [8]
  • Floydie Bear, a mischievous Teddy Bear who helps others [9]
  • Theo, an adorable little Teddy Bear in his quiet world [10]
  • Henry Bear, CindaBella, and Jazmyn owner and staff at the Bearly Irish Pub message board [11]
  • E. Coligh, an Australian traveling bear who has had her photo taken in many locations across Melbourne
  • D-bear, a notoriously dim-witted bear in Pickle comics (Taiwan)

[edit] See also

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ On August 1, 2006, CNN reported that Barney, a Doberman Pinscher employed as a security dog at Wookey Hole Caves, had destroyed parts of a valuable collection of teddy bears, including one which had belonged to Elvis Presley, which was valued to be worth $75,000. The insurance company insuring the exhibition of stuffed animals had insisted on having guard dog protection.
    “He just went berserk,” said Daniel Medley, general manager of the Wookey Hole Caves near Wells, England, where hundreds of bears were chewed up Tuesday night by the 6-year-old Doberman pinscher named Barney. A security guard at the museum, Greg West, said he spent several minutes chasing Barney before wrestling the dog to the ground (Elvis’ teddy bear leaves building the hard way: Guard dog rips head off Presley’s $75,000 toy in stuffed-animal rampage, Associated Press, Aug 3, 2006).
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