List of fictional bears

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. Template:Dynamic list

Contents

1 Bears in books 2 Bears in plays 3 Animated bears 4 Bears in comics and cartoons 5 Bears in film 6 Puppet bears 7 Bears in advertising 8 Bears in poetry and song 9 Bears on television 10 Teddy bears 11 Animatronic Bears 12 Miscellaneous 13 See also

Bears in books

• Baloo from The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
• the Berenstain Bears
• Brer Bear, from the Uncle Remus stories by Joel Chandler Harris
• Paddington Bear
• the Three Bears from Goldilocks and the Three Bears
• Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne
• Rupert the Bear from the children's books by Mary Tourtel (also became featured in comic strips and a TV series)
• Little Bear by Maurice Sendak
• Crow of the Bear Clan, barbarian comic book bear
• Shardik, the ursine protagonist of Richard Adams' novel of the same name
• Shardik, a 70 feet tall cyborg bear from Stephen King's The Wastelands, named after the above
• Iorek Byrnison, the armoured bear in Philip Pullman's trilogy His Dark Materials

Bears in plays

• The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare famously includes the stage direction "Exit, pursued by a bear".

Animated bears

• Akakabuto is the demented, one-eyed (later giant) Bear and arch-nemesis of Silver Fang in the anime Ginga: Nagareboshi Gin. His name means literally red helmet, the name is derived from the fur atop his head which is completely red.
• Barney Bear from the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer theatrical cartoons of the 1940s and 1950s.
• Bears (several characters) in the Walt Disney Studios animated film Brother Bear
• Bear, from Franklin
• Blinky Bill, an animated koala from the eponymously named Australian series (not actually a bear, but sufficiently teddy-like to warrant inclusion)
• Blubber, Luke's racing partner in Hanna-Barbera's Wacky Races
• Brother Bear, title character from the 2003 Disney animated film
• the Buddy Bears, recurring children's show bears who promote conformity and collectivism on Garfield and Friends
• the Care Bears
• Eddy and the Bear
• the Gummi Bears
• Help! It's The Hair Bear Bunch: Hanna-Barbera
• Humphrey Bear, a Walt Disney character appearing in 1950s shorts, usually harassing Donald Duck
• Kissy Fur - Animated series in the United States from the 1980s about two run away circus bears that now live in the Bayou.
• Little Bear
• Little John was a bear in Disney's version of Robin Hood
• Nameless bear from Harvey Birdman
• The Three Bears, Looney Tunes characters
• Unnamed sailor bear who catches the magic bed while fishing in Bedknobs and Broomsticks
• Yogi Bear and his pal Boo Boo, created by Hanna-Barbera

Bears in comics and cartoons

• The many bears of Gary Larson's The Far Side cartoons
• P. T. Bridgeport, the con-bear in Walt Kelly's Pogo
• Cornelius Bear and Téodor Orezcu in Chris Onstad's Achewood webcomic.

Bears in film

• Archie in Dr. Dolittle 2
• Adult male and cub from L' Ours
• The relentless, man-eating bear in the 1997 film, The Edge

Puppet bears

• Baby Bear in Sesame Street
• Basil the Bear on Sesame Park
• Bear, Ojo, and Ursa from Bear in the Big Blue House
• Bobo the Bear from Muppets Tonight
• Fozzie Bear from The Muppet Show
• Humphrey B. Bear
• Sooty, Cousin Scampy and Soo (a panda bear)

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.
• George, the cool, stylish bear in British Hofmeister Beer commercials of the 1970s. "For great lager, follow the bear".
• the Hamm's Beer bear
• the ICEE Polar Bear, an animated mascot for The ICEE Company, as seen on TV ads.
• Talking polar bear from British Fox's Glacier Mint commercials
• Talking polar bear from British Cresta soft drink commercials of the 1970s

• Polar bears from international Coca-Cola commercials
• the Labatt's Blue bear
• Grizzly bears in ads for Charmin toilet paper
• "There's a bear in the woods. . ." Presumably representing the Soviet Union, this bear appeared in Ronald Reagan's campaign advertising.
• Snuggles, the fabric softener bear
• Sugar Bear, mascot for General Foods Corporation's Post Sugar Crisp cereal
• Bundaberg Polar Bear used widely In Bundaberg Rum Ads in Australia.
• Charmin bears.

Bears in poetry and song

• Fuzzy wuzzy

was a bear

Fuzzy wuzzy had no hair

So Fuzzy wuzzy wasn't fuzzy, was he.

• Bulgy

Algy saw the bear.

The bear saw Algy.

The bear was bulgy.

The bulge was Algy.

• The bear who went over the mountain, to see what he could see

Bears on television

• Bear, the title character from the Disney television program Bear in the Big Blue House
• Gentle Ben, grizzly Bear companion to "Grizzly Adams"
• Buttons, the womanizing teddy bear on "Puppets Who Kill"

Teddy bears

• Mister Woppit, mascot of Donald Campbell, breaker of speed-records killed on Lake Coniston in 1967.
• Bear, the mascot of the Windows 3.1 (and later Windows 95) team
• Teddy Ruxpin, the popular animatronic teddy bear from the 1980's.
• Pooky,teddy bear from the comic strip Garfield.
• Winnie the Pooh, teddy bear of Christopher Robin Milne, son of A.A. Milne.
• Corduroy, Don Freeman's classic teddy character

Animatronic Bears

• "Zeke and Zed and Ted and Fred, and a bear named Tennessee," the bears of the Country Bear Jamboree at Disney theme parks
• Billy Bob and Beach Bear from the Showbiz Pizza restaurant house band, The Rock-afire Explosion.

Miscellaneous

• 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.
• Drop Bear, an urban mythical marsupial in Australia said to be similar to the Koala Bear
• Ursa Major and Ursa Minor the two bear constellations, sometimes also referred to as the big dipper, or the drinking gourd.
• Grizzly Slash/Cresent Grizzly, a Maverick from Megaman X5.

See also

• List of fictional animals
• List of historical bears

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