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Note that while the majority of these have bears being used for comedic purposes, non-comedic examples of bears being lovable should work for the trope as well.

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== Advertising ==

* Coca-Cola's famous commercials featuring polar bears that they bring out every year around the holidays.

* In the French graphic novel ''[[Pyrenee]]'' the [[Wild Child]] title character is a girl raised by a bear in the mountains. The bear is mostly seen as a big furry dope, but there's one scene where they get into a serious argument and he only ''just'' manages to hold back from killing her.

* Baloo in ''[[The Jungle Book (Disney film)|The Jungle Book]]'' epitomizes the "lovable lug" archetype for bears. Baloo was also friends with Mowgli in the original Kipling story, but his Disney version is [[Adaptation Displacement|probably the most well-known.]]

* Little John in Disney's ''[[Robin Hood (Disney film)|Robin Hood]]'', practically an [[Expy]] of Baloo.

* The second half of the upcoming film ''[[Brave]]'' apparantly had the entire royal family save Merida (whether King Fergus is affected by this or not is debatable) being turned into bears.

* Disney's ''[[Escape to Witch Mountain]]'' (1975). Tia frees a captured bear, which goes along with Tony and Tia and protects them.

* The bears in the movie based on the Country Bear Jamboree, ''[[The Country Bears]]''.

== Live Action TV ==

* [[Gentle Ben]].

* Kintaros of ''[[Kamen Rider Den-O]]'' is partially based on a bear; for the most part he [[Does Not Know His Own Strength]], a bit [[The Klutz|clumsy]], and a [[Gentle Giant]] all in one package.

* Banjo from ''[[Banjo-Kazooie]]''.

* ''[[Sore Losers]]'' has a blue midget bear named Coleman as its [[Animal Mascot]]. While Coleman still can be vicious, he's also a constant source of comic relief, [[Speech-Impaired Animal|talks in half-growls]], and is small enough to pass for a teddy bear when standing still.

* When some bar-bear-ian Were-bears turned up in ''[[Exiern]]'' they unleashed a [[Hurricane of Puns]], utterly un-bear-able in the watching crowd.

* Beary, [[Benzaie]]'s son/brother who also happens to be a plush polar bear, and usually winds up as [[The Woobie]] thanks to the way Benzaie treats him.

* [http://everything2.com/title/The+Bear+FAQ The Bear FAQ]