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▲[[File:Kubfu Pokemon.gif|thumb|frame|400px|The Kung-Fu Cub in all its cuteness!]]
Bears are definitely [[Bears are Bad News|bad news]] for anyone who earns their ire. They're humongous, freakishly powerful, frighteningly durable, can't be outrun, and will kill you slowly to boot.
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==[[Advertising]]==
* Snuggle Bear is the mascot for the ''Snuggle'' brand fabric softener. The bear is not only cute, but also soft to show how well the product works.
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* Enforced in ''[[Killing Bites]]'': the Giant Panda Brute Wang Aizhen uses the panda's adorable characteristics to appeal to the Killing Bites tournament's audience while showing the same strength and brutality of a bear. She's a decently powerful martial artist, but not enough to be a proper contender in the tournament thanks to her lack of experience in fighting other Brutes.
* Symbolized in ''[[Yuri Kuma Arashi]]'': bears and lesbian relationships are a symbolic parallel of Japan's view of homosexuality with bears' depiction in popular media. Bears tend to have a cuteness to them in pop culture, but are dangerous creatures in reality. Japan's view of lesbians, while portrayed positively in a large amount of media such as anime and manga, is still rather backwards to the point that actual lesbians have trouble gaining acceptance within Japanese society.
* Xiao-Mei (aka Shao May) from ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' is the small pet panda of May Chang, as well as her trusty traveling companion. Despite being so little, she is rather protective of May and often mimics May's actions.
* Kumamon from ''[[Digimon Frontier]]'' is a Beastman Digimon that looks like a small bear made of snow, and is clad in green armor with [[An Ice Person|power over ice]].
* Yuna from ''[[Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear]]'' is a [[hikikomori]] who [[Trapped in Another World|was transported to another world]] by a god who also gave her a set of bear-themed equipment: a bear suit with bear hand puppets as weapons. Although it looks like nothing more than a preposterously cute costume, the ensemble is a potent set of magical enhancements that make her more powerful than ''anything'' else in the world, even moreso when it takes a bear-like form.
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* Panda from ''[[Jujutsu Kaisen]]'' is an upbeat, yet calm [[Living Toy|Abrupt Mutated Cursed Corpse]] with a good sense of humor. Unsurprisingly, he looks exactly like a panda bear.
* Lain Iwakura, the title character of ''[[Serial Experiments Lain]]'', spends a great deal of her private home time in a bear-styled one-piece pajama outfit, complete with ears on the hood. She's already a creepy kind of cute, but the suit just adds to it.
* The concept behind ''[[Mao-chan]]'' is that cute aliens are invading Japan. In episode 18, the [[Monster of the Week|cute alien of the week]] is a black bear with a white muzzle... that promptly gets lost in a snowstorm.
== [[Film]] ==
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== [[Literature]] ==
* [[Paddington Bear (novel)|Paddington Bear]] is a beloved figure from British children's literature, and made his first appearance in the 1958 book ''A Bear Called Paddington''. Not only is he small, adorable, and dressed in a cute little coat, hat, and scarf ensemble, but he's incredibly polite to boot.
== [[Music]] ==
* The music video for [https://youtu.be/sgdPlDG1-8k "The Secret About That Girl"] by Japanese [[Vocaloid]] producer and [[singer-songwriter]] [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUXfRsEIJ9xO1DT7TbEWksw E ve] shows a line of toy bears which take part in the teen boy's fantasies about the girl.
== [[Puppet Shows]] ==
* Ojo from ''[[Bear in the Big Blue House]]'' is an endearingly sweet, adorable bear cub with a big imagination. Bear himself also counts from a [[Gentle Giant]] standpoint seeing as how kind, patient, and fatherly he is towards viewers and the residents of his Big Blue House.
* Baby Bear from ''[[Sesame Street]]'', whose cuteness is further accented by his [[Elmuh Fudd Syndwome]]-style speech impediment.
== [[Video Games]] ==
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** ''[[Pokémon Sun and Moon]]'' brings us Stufful, [[Badass Adorable|a small pink teddy bear-like red panda that packs enough of a punch to knock out well-trained Pokemon with a single blow]]. Their evolved form, Bewear, is also adorable and resembles a Japanese mascot. They are rather friendly, but [[Up to Eleven|due to their massive strength]], it's [[Bears are Bad News|bad news]] for those they want to [[Bear Hug|hug]], because their freakish strength lets them snap ''anything'' in half - ''including human spines.''
** ''[[Pokémon Sword and Shield]]'' Gen 8 introduce a legendary bear cub named Kubfu. They're adorably stern-looking gray bear cubs that look and fight like martial artists, and often spend their free time training their body and mind.
* Clark Wonderbot from ''[[Inazuma Eleven
* From ''[[Persona 4]]'', Teddie is a bear-like creature that resembles a living mascot that the Investigation Team first meets in the Midnight Channel. {{spoiler|It is later revealed that he was once a Shadow but developed his cute and cuddly form so that humans could like him more.}}
* In ''[[Sands of Destruction (video game)|Sands of Destruction]]'', there are two types of Bear [[Petting Zoo People|Ferals]]: one type looks like humanoid bears, and the other resemble teddy bears. Taupy Topuran is a Teddy Bear Feral who is [[Badass Adorable|cute and more than capable of holding his own in a fight.]]
* The Mana of Life from ''[[Mana Khemia]]'' inhabits and brings the teddy bear held by Pamela Ibis to life. The Mana made a contract with Pamela which allows her to continue living as a ghost while providing other powers.
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** Toy Freddy from ''[[Five Nights at Freddy's 2]]'' is definitely meant to evoke this, with his round belly, blushing cheeks, and goofy voice giving him an "adorable simpleton" sort of appeal. And as a Toy animatronic, his intended role as an active protector of children makes him that much more approachable... as long as you're a kid. He's just as willing to kill adult-aged night guards as the other animatronics due to faulty programming {{spoiler|as well as possibly being haunted by the vengeful spirit of a dead child}}.
** Helpy, introduced in ''[[Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator]]'' is a
** Glamrock Freddy from ''[[Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach]]'' may look intimidating, but his [[Gentle Giant]] status makes him one of Freddy's most endearing incarnations. He's a [[Nice Guy]] through and through, and his conversations with Gregory paint him as something of an [[Adorkable]] father figure to the boy.
* Angus Delaney from ''[[Night in the Woods]]'' is a quiet, stoic, and introverted bear who is the boyfriend of the hyperactive Gregg. Not only is he adorably round and cuddly, but his shyness and sense of humor make him that much more lovable.
* Jambavan from ''[[Tokyo Afterschool Summoners]]'' is a bear Transient who is a medical prodigy. He's rather timid and depends on others, especially the polar bear housemaster and med school elder, Leib.
** Alp is a dream demon who looks like a panda and styles himself as cute. He often tries to be the center of attention through rap and break dancing.
* Xolga, the deuteragonist of ''[[Xolga and Mr. Toko]]'', is a human transformed in a teddy bear by a magical artifact. His plushie form is apparently quite cute, judging by the amount of people who want to risk painful retaliation from the short-tempered and deceptively strong guy by hugging him.
* Bernadetta from ''[[Fire Emblem: Three Houses]]'' is a shy, [[Adorkable]] shut-in who has something of a [[Animal Motifs|bear motif]] going for her.
** And of course, despite the fact that simply talking to her can trigger an anxiety attack, Bernie-bear can invoke [[Bears are Bad News|another ursine trope]] on the battlefield thanks to being one of the game's better archers.
* Arzuros from ''[[Monster Hunter]]'' isn't exactly cute in a traditional sense, thanks to being a ferocious yellow-and-blue grizzly bear with red eyes. But Komitsu the Sweet-Tooth from ''[[Monster Hunter Rise]]'' thinks they're adorable, and tasks the player with taking a picture of a sleeping one as a sidequest.
* One of [[Crash Bandicoot]]'s recurring animal friends is Polar, a cute little polar bear cub. He doesn't appear often, but he's a surprisingly versatile little guy: depending on the game he's been a mount, a racecar driver, a participant in a ''[[Mario Party]]'' clone, and something of a [[Team Pet]] to Crash and his sister Coco.
== [[Web Animation]] ==
* Molly Blyndeff from ''[[Epithet Erased]]'' is a twelve-year-old whose fashion sense has a bear motif, shown by her hair loops styled like bear ears and her custom made bear hoodie. There is also her minion nickname of 'Bear Trap' given by Giovanni.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* The ''[[Care Bears]]'' are technicolor teddy bears with special symbols on their bellies called Belly Badges, which are related to their personality and magical powers.
* Fluffy and Uranus are pink and blue teddy bear-esque office assistants to ''[[Duckman]]''. They are both cute to [[Up to Eleven|an exaggerated level along with their politically correct nature]], but can come off as needlessly annoying.
* ''[[Andy Panda]]'' is a cute panda cub who goes on all kinds on adventures around the world.
* ''[[Winnie-the-Pooh]]'' is an adorably ditzy yellow teddy bear who wears a red shirt and loves to eat honey. He lives in the
* 5.0.5 from ''[[Villainous (Western Animation)|Villainous]]'' is a large blue bear with a yellow flower growing out of his head. He is a failed experiment created by Dr.Flug that turned out adorable and cowardly instead of threatening, but he's been known to pull off impressive feats of invulnerability when the situation calls for it.
* The title character of ''[[Paddington]]'', the animated TV series adaptation of the famous ''[[Paddington Bear (novel)|Paddington Bear]]'' books made by [[Hanna-Barbera]], is a stop-motion bear doll and adorable.
* Ro-Bear Berbils are small robotic bears who help the ''
* ''[[Little Bear]]'' is a curious
* The titular characters of ''We Bare Bears'', a trio conformed by Grizzly, Panda, and Ice Bear, a grizzly panda and polar bear respectively, are quite cute and endearing in their attempts to integrate within human society, and specially when they form a "bear stack" to go around.
== [[Real Life]] ==
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