List of fictional bears

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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

[edit] Bears in Comics and Cartoons

Traditionnal representation of a bear proposed to children for drawing.
Traditionnal representation of a bear proposed to children for drawing.

[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 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 in Alcohol Advertising

[edit] Bears in Poetry and Song

[edit] Bears on Television

[edit] Teddy Bears

For main article, see Teddy bear.

Microsoft Bear
Microsoft Bear

[edit] Animatronic Bears

[edit] Aesop's Fable: The Bear and the Two Travelers

In a fable by Aesop, two travelers are walking along when a bear jumps up, causing the first traveler to hop into a tree, and the second to lay on the ground, remembering that bears do not attack prey that is already dead. The bear sniffs the "dead" man, and goes away. The first traveler comes back, asking, "What did the Master Bruin do?" The second replies the moral of the story: "Giving me really good advice, Don't trust a friend who abandons you at the first sign of danger."

[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.
  • Grizzly Bears and Polar Bears are aviable to adopt in Zoo Tycoon, both the original and sequel.
  • 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. Bodyguard of Heihachi Mishima.
  • Panda - a character from the Tekken fighting series. Companion of Ling Xiaoyu.
  • Misha, the mascot of the 1980 Summer Olympic games
  • 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.
  • Cuddly, a traveling blogger Teddy Bear from the UK [1]
  • Floydie Bear, a mischievous Teddy Bear who helps others [2]
  • D-bear, a notoriously dim-witted bear in Pickle comics (Taiwan)
  • Rupert, teddy bear belonging to Stewie Griffin, a character in Seth MacFarlane's "Family Guy"
  • Drunky the Bear, a character on the Monsters in the Morning radio show.
  • PostBear the Postman bear, a character from the story "Zack's fantasy", who is a postman.
  • Mary the Baby Bear, a lovable and bubbly little bear from the story "Zack's fantasy".
  • Bear, a playable character from TimeSplitters: Future Perfect.
  • Tequila Teddy and J.D. from their own message board,[3] and Teddy Bear Gumbo [4]
  • Bob T. Bear Esq. a spy Teddy Bear from the UK [5]
  • Pudgie and Gladstone from a blog of several Teddy Bears and plushes called Furry Thoughts for Fuzzy Times [6]
  • Mawson, an expert Teddy Bear from Australia, who helps teach bears about being a bear [7]
  • Spaulding and Teddy, Internet Savvy American Teddy Bears, with their own Web Den [8] and Teddy Bear Journal [9]
  • Henry Bear, CindaBella, and Jazmyn owner and staff at the Bearly Irish Pub message board [10]
  • Phytheas Bear, a small bear who travels with my adopter. [11]
  • Edmund (the explorer) Nesbitt, preparing for an expedition to the Arctic, to raise funds for the children's unit at St. Theresa's Hospice in Darlington. [12]
  • The Cinnamon Bear is Paddy O'Cinnamon from the hero of the 26-part Christmas radio series, THE CINNAMON BEAR, created in 1937 by the late Glanville T. (Glan) Heisch.
  • Klu the Bear, and I have my own blog.[13]

[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).